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Fighters in the Shadows A New History of the French Resistance

Gildea Robert
Heftet / 2016 / Engelsk

Product details

ISBN
9780571280360
Published
2016-07-07
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Weight
504 gr
Height
200 mm
Width
140 mm
Thickness
35 mm
Age
G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
624

Author
Gildea Robert

Biographical note

Robert Gildea has spent a lifetime studying modern France. Among his major works are Children of the Revolution, France Since 1945 and The Past in French History. His book, Marianne in Chains, won the Wolfson Prize for History in 2002. He is Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford.

Fighters in the Shadows A New History of the French Resistance

Gildea Robert
Heftet / 2016 / Engelsk
Gildea Robert
Heftet / 2016 / Engelsk
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The story of the French Resistance is central to French identity, but it is a story built on myths. Not simply an effort to free the country from German occupation, it was part of a Europe-wide anti-fascist struggle, which included Spanish republicans, Italian and German anti-Nazis, communists, Jewish resisters and Christian rescuers. Robert Gildea returns to the testimonies of those involved, asking who they were, and what compelled them to take the terrible risks they did, bringing to the fore stories of the women resisters, whom history has neglected. Fighters in the Shadows is a vivid, gripping and entirely new account of one of the most compelling narratives of the Second World War.
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The story of the French Resistance is central to French identity, but it is a story built on myths. Robert Gildea returns to the testimonies of those involved, asking who they were, and what compelled them to take the terrible risks they did, bringing to the fore stories of the women resisters, whom history has neglected.
Read more
A myth-stripping, monumental history.
Longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, Fighters in the Shadows tells the story of the French Resistance - as it was, rather than how some choose to remember it.

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The story of the French Resistance is central to French identity, but it is a story built on myths. Not simply an effort to free the country from German occupation, it was part of a Europe-wide anti-fascist struggle, which included Spanish republicans, Italian and German anti-Nazis, communists, Jewish resisters and Christian rescuers. Robert Gildea returns to the testimonies of those involved, asking who they were, and what compelled them to take the terrible risks they did, bringing to the fore stories of the women resisters, whom history has neglected. Fighters in the Shadows is a vivid, gripping and entirely new account of one of the most compelling narratives of the Second World War.
Read more
The story of the French Resistance is central to French identity, but it is a story built on myths. Robert Gildea returns to the testimonies of those involved, asking who they were, and what compelled them to take the terrible risks they did, bringing to the fore stories of the women resisters, whom history has neglected.
Read more
A myth-stripping, monumental history.
Longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, Fighters in the Shadows tells the story of the French Resistance - as it was, rather than how some choose to remember it.

Product details

ISBN
9780571280360
Published
2016-07-07
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Weight
504 gr
Height
200 mm
Width
140 mm
Thickness
35 mm
Age
G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
624

Author
Gildea Robert

Biographical note

Robert Gildea has spent a lifetime studying modern France. Among his major works are Children of the Revolution, France Since 1945 and The Past in French History. His book, Marianne in Chains, won the Wolfson Prize for History in 2002. He is Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford.

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