Ludivine Broch (University of Westminster) has published articles on French railwaymen in the Holocaust in Contemporary European History (2014) and Diasporas (2015), and chapters on railway history and memory. This is her first monograph. She is the co-editor of France in an Era of Global Wars, 1914 1945: Occupation, Politics, Empire and Entanglements (2014). Broch co-convenes the French History Seminar at the Institute of Historical Research (London) and manages the French History Network blog affiliated to the Society for the Study of French History.