Shorn Women: Gender and Punishment in Liberation France Fabrice Virgili Berg Publishers, 2002 At the end of World War II, over 20,000 French people accused of collaboration with Germany endured a particularly humiliating act of revenge: their heads were shaved in public. Nearly all those punished were women. This episode in French history continues to provoke shame and unease and as a result has never been the subject of a thorough examination.This groundbreaking book by Fabrice Virgili ...             The Hunt for Nazi Spies: Fighting Espionage in Vichy France2 reviews Simon Kitson University Of Chicago Press, 2007 Intriguing and very accessible + Unique Topic This is a really fascinating book which goes well beyond just the question of espionage and counter-espionage. It offers an entirely new take on the Vichy government and its relationship with the Germans by showing that inspite of extensive collaboration the regime struggled to maintain its ...             France: The Dark Years, 1940-19448 reviews Julian Jackson Oxford University Press, USA, 2003 Definitive World War II History on Nazi-Occupied France + Brilliant + DARK FRANCE + Limited in scope, but excellent in detail             Marianne in Chains: Daily Life in the Heart of France During the German Occupation5 reviews Robert Gildea Picador, 2004 The Man who shot Kommandant Hotz + The myth about the French resistance . In September, 1939, France and Britain declared war on Germany because of the latter`s invasion of Poland. France manned its northern and eastern defenses, the Germans manned the „Westwall", occasional artillery rounds were fired to make sure that the guns were properly trained, but for more than ...             Choices in Vichy France: The French Under Nazi Occupation1 review John Sweets Oxford University Press, USA, 1994 Clearly one of the best books on occupied France If your subject is life in occupied France during World War II then Sweets book is one of the key works with which you must be familiar. The work is highly readable, carefully researched, and has the highest respect in the historical community. Sweets strongly makes the case that by late 1942 ...             War and Liberation in France: Living with the Liberation Hilary Footitt Palgrave Macmillan, 2004 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 ...             Fleeing Hitler: France 19403 reviews Hanna Diamond Oxford University Press, USA, 2007 Profesor Emeritus of Modern European History + Fleeing Hitler + The French Exodus Diamond, Hanna E. Fleeing Hitler; France, 1940 Oxford, Oxford University Press 219 pp, plus endnotes, bibliography and index ISBN 978-0-19--280618-5, May, 2007 I should note in starting my review of Prof. Diamond's excellent little book that it was Oxford University Press who sought ...             France at War: Vichy and the Historians2 reviews Berg Publishers, 2000 Best update available on Vichy scholarship. This book is an essential text for anyone interested in the history of of France during the Vichy regime. It offers a superlative compilation of the latest scholarship in the field, contributed by some of its most important writers, people like Michael Marrus, Jean-Pierre Azema, Henri Rousso, ...             The Vichy Syndrome: History and Memory in France Since 1944 Henry Rousso Harvard University Press, 2006 From the Liberation purges to the Barbie trial, France has struggled with the memory of the Vichy experience: a memory of defeat, occupation and repression. In this study, Henry Rousso examines how this proud nation - a nation where reality and myth commingle to confound understanding - has dealt with "les annees noires", specifically examining what the French have chosen to remember and what ...             Vichy France7 reviews Robert O. Paxton Columbia University Press, 2001 The French Quest for Collaboration + Landmark Work + Revolutionary + On the review of Mr J. Adams             Vichy France and the Jews: with a new Foreword [1995] by Stanley Hoffmann Michael Marrus, Robert Paxton, ... Stanford University Press, 1995 What part did Vichy France really play in the Nazi effort to murder Jews living in France? Few questions, from the end of World War II to the present day, have so haunted French society. This book, now a classic, is the definitive account of Vichy's own antisemitic policies and practices and a major contribution to the history of the Jewish tragedy in wartime Europe. It was originally described ...             We Will Wait: Wives of French Prisoners of War, 1940-1945 Sarah Fishman Yale University Press, 1991 Sarah Fishman's "We Will Wait" offers a view of the condition of women, and particularly the 800,000 wives of French prisoners of war, in Vichy France. It provides both personal accounts of several representative women and an analysis of the Vichy state. The paternalistic government assumed that women without husbands needed not only financial help, but also guidance, leadership, and moral ...             Vichy: An Ever-Present Past (Contemporary French Culture and Society) Eric Conan, Henry Rousso Dartmouth, 1998 Inflamed by current events and sometimes inaccurate or ambiguous news reports, French scrutiny of the Vichy regime and its involvement with Nazi policies began to intensify in the 1980s and continues unabated. Recent disclosures about the ambivalent role of French President Franç ois Mitterrand, coverage of the Paul Touvier trial, and revelations about a card file kept on French Jews have only ...             In Search of the Maquis: Rural Resistance in Southern France, 1942-1944 (Clarendon Paperbacks) H. R. Kedward Oxford University Press, USA, 1995 This is a study of the Maquis in southern France, the Resisters who took to the woods and hills in the struggle against the German Occupation in the Second World War. H. R. Kedward's detailed and perceptive account explores what participation in the Maquis meant for those involved both at the time and subsequently. He examines the motivations of the maquisards and how the circumstances of ...             In Search of the Maquis: Rural Resistance in Southern France, 1942-1944 (Clarendon Paperbacks) H. R. Kedward Oxford University Press, USA, 1995 This is a study of the Maquis in southern France, the Resisters who took to the woods and hills in the struggle against the German Occupation in the Second World War. H. R. Kedward's detailed and perceptive account explores what participation in the Maquis meant for those involved both at the time and subsequently. He examines the motivations of the maquisards and how the circumstances of ...             Choices in Vichy France: The French Under Nazi Occupation1 review John Sweets Oxford University Press, USA, 1994 Clearly one of the best books on occupied France If your subject is life in occupied France during World War II then Sweets book is one of the key works with which you must be familiar. The work is highly readable, carefully researched, and has the highest respect in the historical community. Sweets strongly makes the case that by late 1942 ...             Vichy France and the Jews: with a new Foreword [1995] by Stanley Hoffmann Michael Marrus, Robert Paxton, ... Stanford University Press, 1995 What part did Vichy France really play in the Nazi effort to murder Jews living in France? Few questions, from the end of World War II to the present day, have so haunted French society. This book, now a classic, is the definitive account of Vichy's own antisemitic policies and practices and a major contribution to the history of the Jewish tragedy in wartime Europe. It was originally described ...             The Hunt for Nazi Spies: Fighting Espionage in Vichy France2 reviews Simon Kitson University Of Chicago Press, 2007 Intriguing and very accessible + Unique Topic This is a really fascinating book which goes well beyond just the question of espionage and counter-espionage. It offers an entirely new take on the Vichy government and its relationship with the Germans by showing that inspite of extensive collaboration the regime struggled to maintain its ...             We Will Wait: Wives of French Prisoners of War, 1940-1945 Sarah Fishman Yale University Press, 1991 Sarah Fishman's "We Will Wait" offers a view of the condition of women, and particularly the 800,000 wives of French prisoners of war, in Vichy France. It provides both personal accounts of several representative women and an analysis of the Vichy state. The paternalistic government assumed that women without husbands needed not only financial help, but also guidance, leadership, and moral ...             France: The Dark Years, 1940-19448 reviews Julian Jackson Oxford University Press, USA, 2003 Definitive World War II History on Nazi-Occupied France + Brilliant + DARK FRANCE + Limited in scope, but excellent in detail