War and Identity: The French and the Second World War: An Anthology of Texts

ISBN-13: 9781032075143 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 118 str.

Nettelbeck, Colin W.

Opis

This book, first published in 1987, examines the elements that constitute the French identity through the experience of the Second World War – a constant point of reference, a landmark to which the collective consciousness returns again and again.

Spis treści

1. On the Eve of War: A Nation Divided  1.1. Léon Blum and the ‘Front Populaire’  1.2. Civil War in Spain  1.3. ‘Mieux Hitler que Blum’  1.4. Munich  1.5. The ‘Drôle de guerre’  2. The Débâcle (10 May-20 June 1940)  2.1. Military Defeat  2.2. Dunkirk  2.3. Exodus  2.4. Armistice  2.5. De Gaulle’s Rebellion  2.6. The Defeat  3. Occupation I: Disillusionment and Illusions  3.1. Prisoners  3.2. A Humiliated People  3.3. Vichy and Paris  3.4. Glitter and Black Market  3.5. Germany: the Promised Land  3.6. De Gaulle Seen from Vichy  4. Occupation II: Abjection and Hope  4.1. The Jewish Question  4.2. Nazi France  4.3. Resistance  4.4. Timid Beginnings  4.5. ‘Le Parti des fusillés’  4.6. Towards Liberation  5. Liberation, Purge and the Quest for a New France  5.1. Getting Rid of the Germans  5.2. ‘L’Épuration’  5.3. The Search for Unity  6. Looking Back  6.1. Colonial Disaster  6.2. The Return of de Gaulle  6.3. The War Revisited

O autorze

Colin W. Nettelbeck