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The Unfree French: Life Under the Occupation - Softcover

Vinen, Richard

 
9780140296846: The Unfree French: Life Under the Occupation
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0140296840 ISBN 13: 9780140296846
Verlag: Penguin, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

In the summer of 1940 the French army was one of the largest and best in the world, confident of victory. In the space of a few nightmarish weeks that all changed as the French and their British allies were crushed and eight million people fled their homes. Richard Vinen's new book describes the consequences of that defeat. It does so not by looking at political leaders in Vichy or Paris or London but rather at those who were caught up in daily horrors of war. It describes the fate of a French prisoner of war who was punished because he wrote a love letter to a German woman, and the fate of a French woman who gave birth to a German-fathered child as the Americans landed in Normandy. It describes the 'false policemen' who proliferated in occupied Paris as desperate men on the run seeking to feed themselves by blackmailing those who were even more vulnerable than themselves. It asks why some gentile French people chose to risk imprisonment by wearing yellow stars. It recounts the fate of a couple of estranged middle-aged Jews, separated by the mobilisation of 1939, who found themselves (in July 1942) on the same train to Auschwitz. Extremely moving and brilliantly readable, The Unfree French is a remarkable addition to the literature of the Second World War.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Richard Vinen is Professor of History at King's College, London and the author of a number of major books. He won the Wolfson Prize for History for National Service (2014).

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Verlag
Penguin
Erscheinungsdatum
2007
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0140296840
ISBN 13 
9780140296846
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
496
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