Marianne In Chains: In Search of the German Occupation 1940-45
by Gildea, Robert
- Used
- near fine
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/ none
- ISBN 10
- 0330488651
- ISBN 13
- 9780330488655
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Bromsgrove, West Midlands, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Pan, 2003 0330488651. Soft cover. First edition. First printing. Complete numberline. Fine except for crease to rear cover. No inscriptions or annotations. 524 pages including index. Winner of the Wolfson History Prize 2002. For the last fifty years, the German Occupation of France has been regarded as a period characterised by four things: cold, hunger, the absence of freedom and above all fear; a time when the indigenous population was cruelly and consistently oppressed by the army of occupation. The people of France were either bold members of the Resistance or craven collaborators. In this riveting and provocative study, Robert Gildea reveals a rather different story, a story which shows that the truth lies - as so often - somewhere in between.`Excellent... a peculiarly rich book, enlightening about conscription, forced labour, the role of the Catholic Church, sex between German soldiers and French women (`horizontal collaboration`) and much else.` Frank McLynn, New Statesman. `Gildea`s revisionist account is the most convincing and lucid that I have read. Rather as his Oxford colleague Roy Foster did for Irish history (when he rubbished the "400 years of national suffering" version that has had such disastrous consequences), Gildea has succeeded in giving us a startlingly original view of what we thought was a familiar period.` Patrick Marnham, Sunday Telegraph .
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- Bookseller
- David Edward Hellawell (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2177
- Title
- Marianne In Chains: In Search of the German Occupation 1940-45
- Author
- Gildea, Robert
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- none
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0330488651
- ISBN 13
- 9780330488655
- Publisher
- Pan, 0330488651
- Place of Publication
- London:
- Date Published
- 2003
- Keywords
- Occupation Vichy France Catholic Church Collaboration Conscription Forced Labour QSE
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