Fighters in the shadows : a new history of the French resistance / Robert Gildea.

By:

Gildea, Robert [Author]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, (c)2015.Edition: First Harvard University press editionDescription: 1 online resource (xiv, 593 pages) : 8 unnumbered leaves of plates, illustrations, mapsContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780674496132

Other title:

New history of the French resistance

Subject(s):

World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- France

Genre/Form:

Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

D802 .F544 2015

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Contents:

Awakenings -- Faire quelque chose -- 'Titi has been avenged!' -- London calling -- Une affaire de femmes -- In and out of the shadows -- God's underground -- The blood of others -- The hinge : North Africa -- Apogee -- Rupture -- Skyfall or guerrilla -- D-day -- Liberation -- Afterlives -- Conclusion : battle for the soul of the resistance.

Subject: "The French Resistance has an iconic status in the struggle to liberate Nazi-occupied Europe, but its story is entangled in myths. Gaining a true understanding of the Resistance means recognizing how its image has been carefully curated through a combination of French politics and pride, ever since jubilant crowds celebrated Paris's liberation in August 1944. Robert Gildea's penetrating history of resistance in France during World War II sweeps aside "the French Resistance" of a thousand clichés, showing that much more was at stake than freeing a single nation from Nazi tyranny. As Fighters in the Shadows makes clear, French resistance was part of a Europe-wide struggle against fascism, carried out by an extraordinarily diverse group: not only French men and women but Spanish Republicans, Italian anti-fascists, French and foreign Jews, British and American agents, and even German opponents of Hitler. In France, resistance skirted the edge of civil war between right and left, pitting non-communists who wanted to drive out the Germans and eliminate the Vichy regime while avoiding social revolution at all costs against communist advocates of national insurrection. In French colonial Africa and the Near East, battle was joined between de Gaulle's Free French and forces loyal to Vichy before they combined to liberate France. Based on a riveting reading of diaries, memoirs, letters, and interviews of contemporaries, Fighters in the Shadows gives authentic voice to the resisters themselves, revealing the diversity of their struggles for freedom in the darkest hours of occupation and collaboration."--Publisher's description.

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"First published in the United Kingdom by Faber & Faber Ltd in 2015"--Page following title page.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction : remembering the French resistance -- Awakenings -- Faire quelque chose -- 'Titi has been avenged!' -- London calling -- Une affaire de femmes -- In and out of the shadows -- God's underground -- The blood of others -- The hinge : North Africa -- Apogee -- Rupture -- Skyfall or guerrilla -- D-day -- Liberation -- Afterlives -- Conclusion : battle for the soul of the resistance.

"The French Resistance has an iconic status in the struggle to liberate Nazi-occupied Europe, but its story is entangled in myths. Gaining a true understanding of the Resistance means recognizing how its image has been carefully curated through a combination of French politics and pride, ever since jubilant crowds celebrated Paris's liberation in August 1944. Robert Gildea's penetrating history of resistance in France during World War II sweeps aside "the French Resistance" of a thousand clichés, showing that much more was at stake than freeing a single nation from Nazi tyranny. As Fighters in the Shadows makes clear, French resistance was part of a Europe-wide struggle against fascism, carried out by an extraordinarily diverse group: not only French men and women but Spanish Republicans, Italian anti-fascists, French and foreign Jews, British and American agents, and even German opponents of Hitler. In France, resistance skirted the edge of civil war between right and left, pitting non-communists who wanted to drive out the Germans and eliminate the Vichy regime while avoiding social revolution at all costs against communist advocates of national insurrection. In French colonial Africa and the Near East, battle was joined between de Gaulle's Free French and forces loyal to Vichy before they combined to liberate France. Based on a riveting reading of diaries, memoirs, letters, and interviews of contemporaries, Fighters in the Shadows gives authentic voice to the resisters themselves, revealing the diversity of their struggles for freedom in the darkest hours of occupation and collaboration."--Publisher's description.

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