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Fleeing Hitler France 1940

Diamond Hanna Diamond Hanna
Innbundet / 2007 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780192806185
Publisert
2007
Utgiver
Oxford University Press
Vekt
551 gr
Høyde
241 mm
Bredde
162 mm
Dybde
21 mm
Aldersnivå
G, UU, UP, P, 01, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
272

Forfatter
Diamond Hanna
Diamond Hanna

Biografisk notat

Hanna Diamond is Senior Lecturer in French History in the Department of European Studies at the University of Bath. She lived and taught in Paris for many years and has spent her career researching into the lives of the French people during the twentieth century. Her previous book, Women and the Second World War in France 1939-48: choices and constraints is also based on personal narratives and oral history. It was the first to explore the range of women's experiences of the war. She is currently working on a micro history of a mining community in southern France.

Fleeing Hitler France 1940

Diamond Hanna Diamond Hanna
Innbundet / 2007 / Engelsk
Diamond Hanna Diamond Hanna
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Diamond has providedus with a compelling account of the exodus, one which vividly brings to life a period of profound upheaval in French society.

Lynne Taylor, The English Historical Review

The strength of Diamond's book is to convey the poignancy, drama and ambiguity of an experience that directly touched the lives of many more people than the Resistance ever did... her readable book superbly conveys the strange unreality of those hot summer days of 1940.

Julian Jackson, Times Higher Education Supplement

A fascinating story, rich in biblical drama, and one that has not been previously told in English. [Diamond] is excellent at describing the political machinations that culminated in Paul Reynaud's resignation...[a] valuable book.

Walter Cook, Tribune

Se alle

Gripping reading.

Max Hastings, Sunday Times (Culture)

Hanna Diamond...tells the story vividly and even-handedly. [This] book benefits greatly from the vast number of r witness memoirs.

Allan Massie, Literary Review

A vivid and poignant account... a forgotten moment of the devastation of war brought to life.

Robert Gildea, author of 'Marianne in Chains'

Diamond has an excellent eye for the striking detail...as a work of history, this book is an invaluable account of the fall of France, seen through the lens of the sufferings of its citizens.

Carmen Callil, Financial Times (FT Magazine)

a major contribution

Modern and Contemporary France, Volume 15, Number 4

Wednesday 12th June 1940. The Times reported 'thousands upon thousands of Parisians leaving the capital by every possible means, preferring to abandon home and property rather than risk even temporary Nazi domination'. As Hitler's victorious armies approached Paris, the French government abandoned the city and its people, leaving behind them an atmosphere of panic. Roads heading south filled with ordinary people fleeing for their lives with whatever personal possessions they could carry, often with no particular destination in mind. During the long, hard journey, this mass exodus of predominantly women, children, and the elderly, would face constant bombings, machine gun attacks, and even starvation. Using eyewitness accounts, memoirs, and diaries, Hanna Diamond shows how the disruption this exodus brought to the lives of civilians and soldiers alike made it a defining experience of the war for the French people. As traumatized populations returned home, preoccupied by the desire for safety and bewildered by the unexpected turn of events, they put their faith in Marshall Pétain who was able to establish his collaborative Vichy regime largely unopposed, while the Germans consolidated their occupation. Watching events unfold on the other side of the channel, British ministers looked on with increasing horror, terrified that Britain could be next.
Les mer
The first ever account of how the fall of France to the Germans in 1940 affected the lives of ordinary French people. Using eyewitness accounts, Hanna Diamond tells a story of mass exodus, defeat, humiliation, and occupation - opening the way for the triumph of the Vichy regime under Marshal Pétain.
Les mer
Introduction: Paris: June 1940 ; Part One: Exodus ; 1. The Invasion of Paris ; 2. On the Road ; Part Two: Reactions to Defeat ; 3. Death of the Third Republic ; 4. The People's Decisions ; Part Three: Home or Exile ; 5. Summer-Autumn 1940 ; 6. Back to 'Normal'? ; Afterword: Forgetting and Remembering the Exodus ; Further Reading
Les mer
`For many French people in 1940, the arrival of the German army meant the collapse of civilization. Seven decades later, the specifics of that collapse are largely forgotten; this book is the remedy... Diamond's book ably addresses these long-ago events, which merit remembrance.' Kirkus Reviews
Les mer
Describes in moving detail the effects of invasion and early days of occupation on the people of France The first time this important story has been told in the English language Shows how the shock of defeat opened the way for the establishment of the Vichy regime
Les mer
Hanna Diamond is Senior Lecturer in French History in the Department of European Studies at the University of Bath. She lived and taught in Paris for many years and has spent her career researching into the lives of the French people during the twentieth century. Her previous book, Women and the Second World War in France 1939-48: choices and constraints is also based on personal narratives and oral history. It was the first to explore the range of women's experiences of the war. She is currently working on a micro history of a mining community in southern France.
Les mer
Describes in moving detail the effects of invasion and early days of occupation on the people of France The first time this important story has been told in the English language Shows how the shock of defeat opened the way for the establishment of the Vichy regime
Les mer

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Diamond has providedus with a compelling account of the exodus, one which vividly brings to life a period of profound upheaval in French society.

Lynne Taylor, The English Historical Review

The strength of Diamond's book is to convey the poignancy, drama and ambiguity of an experience that directly touched the lives of many more people than the Resistance ever did... her readable book superbly conveys the strange unreality of those hot summer days of 1940.

Julian Jackson, Times Higher Education Supplement

A fascinating story, rich in biblical drama, and one that has not been previously told in English. [Diamond] is excellent at describing the political machinations that culminated in Paul Reynaud's resignation...[a] valuable book.

Walter Cook, Tribune

Se alle

Gripping reading.

Max Hastings, Sunday Times (Culture)

Hanna Diamond...tells the story vividly and even-handedly. [This] book benefits greatly from the vast number of r witness memoirs.

Allan Massie, Literary Review

A vivid and poignant account... a forgotten moment of the devastation of war brought to life.

Robert Gildea, author of 'Marianne in Chains'

Diamond has an excellent eye for the striking detail...as a work of history, this book is an invaluable account of the fall of France, seen through the lens of the sufferings of its citizens.

Carmen Callil, Financial Times (FT Magazine)

a major contribution

Modern and Contemporary France, Volume 15, Number 4

Wednesday 12th June 1940. The Times reported 'thousands upon thousands of Parisians leaving the capital by every possible means, preferring to abandon home and property rather than risk even temporary Nazi domination'. As Hitler's victorious armies approached Paris, the French government abandoned the city and its people, leaving behind them an atmosphere of panic. Roads heading south filled with ordinary people fleeing for their lives with whatever personal possessions they could carry, often with no particular destination in mind. During the long, hard journey, this mass exodus of predominantly women, children, and the elderly, would face constant bombings, machine gun attacks, and even starvation. Using eyewitness accounts, memoirs, and diaries, Hanna Diamond shows how the disruption this exodus brought to the lives of civilians and soldiers alike made it a defining experience of the war for the French people. As traumatized populations returned home, preoccupied by the desire for safety and bewildered by the unexpected turn of events, they put their faith in Marshall Pétain who was able to establish his collaborative Vichy regime largely unopposed, while the Germans consolidated their occupation. Watching events unfold on the other side of the channel, British ministers looked on with increasing horror, terrified that Britain could be next.
Les mer
The first ever account of how the fall of France to the Germans in 1940 affected the lives of ordinary French people. Using eyewitness accounts, Hanna Diamond tells a story of mass exodus, defeat, humiliation, and occupation - opening the way for the triumph of the Vichy regime under Marshal Pétain.
Les mer
Introduction: Paris: June 1940 ; Part One: Exodus ; 1. The Invasion of Paris ; 2. On the Road ; Part Two: Reactions to Defeat ; 3. Death of the Third Republic ; 4. The People's Decisions ; Part Three: Home or Exile ; 5. Summer-Autumn 1940 ; 6. Back to 'Normal'? ; Afterword: Forgetting and Remembering the Exodus ; Further Reading
Les mer
`For many French people in 1940, the arrival of the German army meant the collapse of civilization. Seven decades later, the specifics of that collapse are largely forgotten; this book is the remedy... Diamond's book ably addresses these long-ago events, which merit remembrance.' Kirkus Reviews
Les mer
Describes in moving detail the effects of invasion and early days of occupation on the people of France The first time this important story has been told in the English language Shows how the shock of defeat opened the way for the establishment of the Vichy regime
Les mer
Hanna Diamond is Senior Lecturer in French History in the Department of European Studies at the University of Bath. She lived and taught in Paris for many years and has spent her career researching into the lives of the French people during the twentieth century. Her previous book, Women and the Second World War in France 1939-48: choices and constraints is also based on personal narratives and oral history. It was the first to explore the range of women's experiences of the war. She is currently working on a micro history of a mining community in southern France.
Les mer
Describes in moving detail the effects of invasion and early days of occupation on the people of France The first time this important story has been told in the English language Shows how the shock of defeat opened the way for the establishment of the Vichy regime
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780192806185
Publisert
2007
Utgiver
Oxford University Press
Vekt
551 gr
Høyde
241 mm
Bredde
162 mm
Dybde
21 mm
Aldersnivå
G, UU, UP, P, 01, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
272

Forfatter
Diamond Hanna
Diamond Hanna

Biografisk notat

Hanna Diamond is Senior Lecturer in French History in the Department of European Studies at the University of Bath. She lived and taught in Paris for many years and has spent her career researching into the lives of the French people during the twentieth century. Her previous book, Women and the Second World War in France 1939-48: choices and constraints is also based on personal narratives and oral history. It was the first to explore the range of women's experiences of the war. She is currently working on a micro history of a mining community in southern France.

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