num_pages: 690
description: This is the first comprehensive study of the German occupation of France between 1940 and 1944. The author examines the nature and extent of collaboration and resistance, different experiences of Occupation, the persecution of the Jews, intellectual and cultural life under Occupation, and the purge trials that followed. He concludes by tracing the legacy and memory of the Occupation since 1945. Taking in ordinary peoples' experiences, this volume uncovers the conflicting memories of occupation which ensure that even today France continues to debate the legacy of the Vichy years.
language: English
title: France: The Dark Years, 1940-1944
titlecomplete: France: The Dark Years, 1940-1944
characters: Claude Bourdet, Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, Henri Giraud, Adolf Hitler, Maxime Weygand, Henri Frenay, François Darlan, Jean Moulin, Édouard Daladier, Léon Blum, Otto Abetz, Philippe Pétain, Pierre Laval, Marcel Déat, Louis Aragon, Emmanuel d'Astier de La Vigerie, Charles de Gaulle, Winston Churchill, Jean-Paul Sartre
genres: History, World War II, Germany, Military History, France, War, European History, Research, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 201
publisher: Oxford University Press