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Occupied France: Collaboration And Resistance 1940-1944

ISBN: 978-0-631-13927-0

April 1985

Wiley-Blackwell

108 pages

Description
This concise history of France from the occupation in 1940 to liberation in 1944 focuses on the struggle between those who favoured collaboration with the occupying Germans and those who opted to resist.
Roderick Kedward shows how ordinary people experienced the occupation; he examines the politics and ideology of the Victory regime, and he discusses the many different forms of resistance launched from inside and outside France. He particularly emphasizes the changing nature of both collaboration and resistance as the pressure of the occupatoin intensified, and asks whether France was involved in a civil war by 1944.
About the Author

Harry Roderick "Rod" Kedward is a British historian, formerly professor of history at the University of Sussex and now professor emeritus.