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Wine and War : the French, the Nazis, and the Battle for France's Greatest Treasure (01 Edition)
by Donald Kladstrup  Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [270]-273)....
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Petain's Crime: The Complete Story of French Collaboration in the Holocaust
by Paul Webster Synopsis A controversial best-seller in Paris, this shocking history of French collaboration in the Holocaust accuses Petain and the Vichy government of independently and enthusiastically seeing to the extermination of French Jews....
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Resistance and Betrayal: The Death and Life of Jean Moulin, the Greatest Hero of the French Resistance
by Patrick Marnham Excerpt Chapter 1 A Doctor’s House in Caluire The house in caluire stands today exactly as it stood then, a handsome stone building on the corner of a small provincial square called the Place Castellane. Caluire is a suburb of Lyon, perched on a hill...
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France the Dark Years 1940-1944
by Julian Jackson Publisher Comments This is the first comprehensive study of the German occupation of France between 1940 and 1944. The author examines the nature and extent of collaboration and resistance, different experiences of Occupation, the persecution of the Jews, intellectual and...
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Voices from the Dark Years: The Truth about Occupied France 1940-1945
by Douglas Boyd Publisher Comments What was life really like in German-occupied France during the Second World War? Douglas Boyd paints the clearest picture yet, using hitherto unpublished first-person accounts of ordinary men and women who lived through this extraordinary and dangerous...
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The Collaborator: The Trial & Execution of Robert Brasillach
by Alice Kaplan Publisher Comments On February 6, 1945, Robert Brasillach was executed for treason by a French firing squad. He was a writer of some distinction—a prolific novelist and a keen literary critic. He was also a dedicated anti-Semite, an acerbic opponent of French...
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Marc Bloch: A Life in History
by Carole Fink Publisher Comments Few twentieth-century scholars have achieved such widespread admiration as the French historian Marc Bloch (1886-1944). A soldier in both world wars and leader of the Resistance who was captured, tortured, and died a heroic death, Bloch epitomizes the...
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Bad Faith: A Forgotten History of Family, Fatherland and Vichy France
by Carmen Callil Publisher Comments Bad Faith tells the story of one of history's most despicable villains and con men — Louis Darquier de Pellepoix, Nazi collaborator and "Commissioner for Jewish Affairs," who managed the Vichy government's dirty work, "controlling" its Jewish...
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The Unfree French: Life Under the Occupation
by Richard Vinen Publisher Comments The swift and unexpected defeat of the French Army in 1940 shocked the nation. Two million soldiers were taken prisoner, six million civilians fled from the German army’s advance to join convoys of confused and terrified refugees, and only a few...
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World War II: The Global, Human, and Ethical Dimension #09: An American Heroine in the French Resistance: The Diary and Memoir of Virginia D'Albert-Lake
by Judy Barrett Litoff Publisher Comments This fascinating book tells the remarkable story of an ordinary American womanas heroism in the French Resistance. Virginia Roush fell in love with Philippe daAlbert-Lake during a visit to France in 1936; they married soon after. In 1943, they both...
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Strange Victory
by Ernest R May Publisher Comments A dramatic narrative-and reinterpretation-of Germany's six-week campaign that swept the Wehrmacht to Paris in spring 1940. Before the Nazis killed him for his work in the French Resistance, the great historian Marc Bloch wrote a famous short book...
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The Unfree French: Life Under the Occupation
by Richard Vinen Publisher Comments The swift and unexpected defeat of the French Army in 1940 shocked the nation. Two million soldiers were taken prisoner, six million civilians fled from the German army's advance to join convoys of confused and terrified refugees, and only a few managed...
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Villa Air-Bel: World War II, Escape, and a House in Marseille
by Rosemary Sullivan Publisher Comments France, 1940. The once glittering boulevards of Paris teem with spies, collaborators, and the Gestapo now that France has fallen to Hitler's Wermacht. For André Breton, Max Ernst, Victor Serge, Marc Chagall, Consuelo de Saint-Exupé ry, Remedios...
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The Surgeon and the Shepherd
by Meg Ostrum Publisher Comments Of the thousands of people who escaped through the Pyrenees during World War II, at least one hundred owe their lives to a daring scheme that Belgian Charles Schepens masterminded in Mendive, a remote Basque village near the French-Spanish border. The...
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Trains of Thought: Paris to Omaha Beach, Memories of a Wartime Youth
by Victor Brombert Synopsis In an unforgettable addition to the literature of memoir, one of America's preeminent literary scholars tells his story of coming of age in France during the buildup to the Second World War. As a Jewish youth in France during the 1930s, Victor Brombert's...
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Villa Air-Bel: World War II, Escape, and a House in Marseille
by Rosemary Sullivan Publisher Comments France, 1940. The once glittering boulevards of Paris teem with spies, collaborators, and the Gestapo now that France has fallen to Hitler's Wermacht. For André Breton, Max Ernst, Marc Chagall, Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry, and scores of other...
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Marianne in Chains: Daily Life in the Heart of France during the German Occupation
by Robert Gildea 
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In the Shadows of War: An American Pilot's Odyssey Through Occupied France and the Camps of Nazi Germany
by Thomas Childers Publisher Comments A compelling narrative of the Eighth Air Force, told from the perspective of not only American flyers, but also European civilians on the ground. Thomas Childers is a master storyteller with a gift for weaving a rich social fabric around military events....
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The Hunt for Nazi Spies: Fighting Espionage in Vichy France
by Simon Kitson Publisher Comments From 1940 to 1942, French secret agents arrested more than two thousand spies working for the Germans and executed several dozen of them—all despite the Vichy government’s declared collaboration with the Third Reich. A previously untold...
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Hitler's Gift to France: The Return of the Remains of Napoleon II: Crisis at Vichy - December 15, 1940
by Georges Poisson Publisher Comments In the dead of the winter of 1940, Hitler decided to return from its burial place in Vienna the ashes of Napoleon II, known as the "Aiglon,"the only son of the emperor Napoleon. The gesture was intended to win the support of the French people, but only...
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