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This book provides a unique perspective on the Allied bombing of France during the Second World War, a campaign that claimed the lives of around 60,000 French civilians. Weaving the words of ordinary French people together with extensive archival research, it explores a little-known part of the Allies' European air war from the ground up. Total war brought violence into the domestic space more than ever before, and bombs were a prominent part of many wartime childhoods. Oral history reveals intimate experience and memory over time, shedding light on how children coped, what they understood,...

This wide-ranging volume brings together a blend of experienced and emerging scholars to examine the texture of everyday life for different parts of the wartime French population. It explores systems of coping, means of helping one another, confrontations with people or events and the challenges posed to and by Vichy's National Revolution during this difficult period in French and European history. The book focuses on human interactions at the micro level, highlighting lived experience within the complex social networks of this era, as French civilians negotiated the violence of war, the...