Unfree French Life under the Occupation

Name: Unfree French Life under the Occupation
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ISBN: 9780300126013

ISBN-10: 0300126018

ISBN-13: 9780300126013

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Authors: Richard Vinen

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The swift and unexpected defeat of the French Army in 1940 shocked the nation. Two million soldiers were taken prisoner, six million civilians fled from the German army’s advance to join convoys of confused and terrified refugees, and only a few managed to escape the country. The vast majority of French people were condemned to years of subjugation under Nazi and Vichy rule. This compelling book investigates the impact of the occupation on the people of France and dispels any lingering notion that somehow, under the collaborating government of Marshal Pétain, life was quite tolerable for most French citizens. Richard Vinen describes the inescapable fear and the moral quandaries that…

Book details

List price: $26.00
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 12/18/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 496
Size: 6.00" wide x 6.25" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.518
Language: English

Richard Vinen is Reader in History at Kingrsquo;s College, University of London. His last book was the highly acclaimed A History in Fragments: Europe in the Twentieth Century.