In Search of the Maquis: Rural Resistance in Southern France, 1942-1944

ISBN-13: 9780198205784 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 360 str.

Kedward

Opis

This is a study of the Maquis in southern France, the Resisters who took to the woods and hills in the struggle against the German Occupation in the Second World War. H. R. Kedward's detailed and perceptive account explores what participation in the Maquis meant for those involved both at the time and subsequently. He examines the motivations of the maquisards and how the circumstances of occupation and resistance affected the ways of life of rural communities in the south of France. Drawing on extensive archival research and oral histories of the participants, this original and readable book offers us important insights into the nature of community and regional tradition.

Recenzje

This is a Maquisard history of the Maquis, and a very fine one.

O autorze

H. R. Kedward is author of numerous books and articles dealing with themes of war, resistance, and politics in 20th- century France. Amongst these are Resistance in Vichy France (OUP 1978), Occupied France (Basil Blackwell, 1985), Vichy France and the Resistance: culture and ideology (Croom Helm, 1985) as co-editor, He has been contracted to write the Penguin History of Twentieth-Century France.