World War II
Subtitle: the unseen visual history : the Caen memorial
By: translated from the French by Christopher Caines
Contributors: Mémorial Caen Normandie (Museum)
Publisher: New Press; Distributed by Perseus Distribution
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781595586810
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945; Pictorial works
Work titles: Guerre mondiale, guerre totale. English
Notes: Originally published as : Guerre mondiale-Guerre totale. Paris : Gallimard ; Caen : Mémorial de Caen, c2010.

"The original French edition of this book was published to commemorate the inauguration of new exhibition spaces at the Mémorial de Caen, including the galleries entitled Guerre mondiale-Guerre totale (World War-Total War), on May 12, 2010"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Preface: the twentieth century was ten years old / by Philippe Duron, Stéphane Grimaldi, and Isabelle Bournier; title: Foreword: memory as the object of history / by Denis Peschanski; title: The failure of peace; title: The dark years: France under Nazi occupation; title: World war-total war / by Pierre Laborie; title: From European war to world war; title: Genocide and mass violence; title: Total war; title: Life in wartime; title: Reconquest and liberation; title: Costs and consequences: emerging from wartime; title: Memory and history; title: D-Day and the Battle of Normandy / by Jean Quellien.