Title: War tourism : Second World War France from defeat and occupation to the creation of heritage /
Authors: Gordon, Bertram M., 1945-
Year: 2018
Subjects: Tourism France History; Germans Travel France History; Dark tourism France History; Heritage tourism France History; World War, 1939-1945 France; War and society France History; Collective memory France History; Collective memory; Dark tourism; Germans Travel; Heritage tourism; Tourism; War and society; Deutsche; Tourismus; Urlauber; Weltkrieg; France; Frankreich
Abstract: "This book addresses the linkages between tourism and war, focusing on tourism by German personnel and French civilians during the Second World War and on postwar memory tourism"--
Contents: Introduction : tourism, aesthetics, and war -- The emergence of France as a tourist icon in the Belle Époque -- Two 1940 locales as sites and symbols : the Maginot Line and the Compiègne railway car -- French tourism in their occupied country -- German tourism in occupied France 1940-1944 -- The liberation, 1944 : Normandy and Paris -- Tourism and the war : Free French and resistance sites : Vichy and its discontents -- Tourism, war, and memory in France since the war -- Conclusion : aftermath and the question of appropriate remembrance : French tourism and its self-images of the Second World War to the present.