Synopses & Reviews
This book, coinciding with the sixtieth anniversary of the Liberation of France, takes a unique approach to the events of 1944, by seeing them as shared experiences which brought ordinary Anglo-Americans and French people into contact with each other in a variety of different communities. The book looks at the Liberation through 5 case-studies: Normandy, Cherbourg, Provence, the Pyrbliogénbliogées-Orientales and Reims, and uses the words of participants at the time to describe the developing relationship between Liberators and Liberated.
About the Author
Hilary Footitt is Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Stirling.
Table of Contents
List of Maps and Photographs * Acknowledgements * Abbreviations * Introduction * Welcoming the Liberators * Liberation on the Move: Normandy * Meeting Private Ryan: Cherbourg * The Politics of Disappointment: Liberation in the South * Removing Inflammable Material: The Pyrbliogénbliogées-Orientales * The Long Goodbye: Reims * Liberated and Liberators * Notes * Bibliography