“A valuable account of what one significant and perceptive Frenchman
experienced during the protracted disgrace of France as a vassal state
of Nazi Germany.” —Publishers Weekly In 1939, the 65-year-old
French political economist Charles Rist was serving as advisor to the
French government and consultant to the international banking and
business world. As France anxiously awaited a German invasion, Rist
traveled to America to negotiate embargo policy. Days after his return
to Paris, the German offensive began and with it the infamous season
of occupation. Retreating to his villa in Versailles, Rist turned his
energies to the welfare of those closest to him, while in his diary he
began to observe the unfolding of the war. Here the deeply learned
Rist investigates the causes of the disaster and reflects on his
country’s fate, placing the behavior of the “people” and the
“elite” in historical perspective. Though well-connected, Rist and
his family and friends were not exempt from the perils and tragedies
of war, as the diary makes clear. Season of Infamy presents a
distinctive, closely-observed view of life in France under the
occupation.
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ISBN
9780253019516
Publisert
2016
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Indiana University Press
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
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Digital bok
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