Product details:
| ISBN13: | 9781009161145 |
| ISBN10: | 1009161148 |
| Binding: | Hardback |
| No. of pages: | 832 pages |
| Size: | 235x164x48 mm |
| Weight: | 1310 g |
| Language: | English |
| 733 |
Category:
Resistance and Liberation
France at War, 1942-1945
Series:
Armies of the Second World War;
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date of Publication: 25 January 2024
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Short description:
New history of la France libre, Vichy collaboration, and the resistance from the campaigns in Tunisia and Italy to Liberation.
Long description:
In Resistance and Liberation, Douglas Porch continues his epic history of France at war. Emerging from the deb&&&226;cle of 1940, France faced the quandary of how to rebuild military power, protect the empire, and resuscitate its global influence. While Charles de Gaulle rejected the armistice and launched his offshore crusade to reclaim French honor within the Allied camp, defeatists at Vichy embraced cooperation with the victorious Axis. The book charts the emerging dynamics of la France libre and the Alliance, Vichy collaboration, and the swelling resistance to the Axis occupation. From the campaigns in Tunisia and Italy to Liberation, Douglas Porch traces how de Gaulle sought to forge a French army and prevent civil war. He captures the experiences of ordinary French men and women caught up in war and defeat, the choices they made, the trials they endured, and how this has shaped France's memory of those traumatic years.
'In this groundbreaking work, Douglas Porch illuminates France's complicated wartime history from the confused political and military response to the invasion of North Africa, through resistance and liberation, to France's struggles to achieve a global position in the postwar world.' Mary Kathryn Barbier, author of Spies, Lies, and Citizenship: The Hunt for Nazi Criminals
'In this groundbreaking work, Douglas Porch illuminates France's complicated wartime history from the confused political and military response to the invasion of North Africa, through resistance and liberation, to France's struggles to achieve a global position in the postwar world.' Mary Kathryn Barbier, author of Spies, Lies, and Citizenship: The Hunt for Nazi Criminals
Table of Contents:
Preface; 1. Tunisia; 2. 'A sort of resurrection of France.'; 3. Triumph and dishonor in Italy; 4. Resistance on the eve of D-Day; 5. The supreme battle; 6. Anvil-Dragoon; 7. L'Amalgame; 8. Les Vosges; 9. Rhine and Danube; 10. Conclusion.
