Marianne in Chains: Daily Life in the Heart of France During the German Occupation
by Robert Gildea
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A startling and original view of the occupation of the French heartland, based on a new investigation of everyday life under Nazi ruleIn France, the German occupation is called simply the "dark years." There were only the "good French" who resisted and the "bad French" who collaborated. Marianne in Chains, a broad and provocative history, uncovers a rather different story, one in which the truth is more complex and humane.Drawing on previously unseen archives, firsthand interviews, diaries, show more and eyewitness accounts, Robert Gildea reveals everyday life in the heart of occupied France. He describes the pressing imperatives of work, food, transportation, and family obligations that led to unavoidable compromise and negotiation with the army of occupation. In the process, he sheds light on such subjects as forced labor, the role of the Catholic Church, the "horizontal collaboration" between French women and German soldiers, and, most surprisingly, the ambivalent attitude of ordinary people toward the Resistance.A great work of reconstruction, Marianne in Chains provides a clear view, unobscured by romance or polemics, of the painful ambiguities of living under tyranny. show lessTags
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Robert Gildea is a professor of modern European history at the University of Oxford
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- Alternate titles
- Marianne in chains : everyday life in the French heartland under the German occupation; Marianne in chains : in search of the German occupation, 1940-1945
- Important places
- France; Paris, France
- Important events
- World War II (1939 | 1945); World War II, German Occupation of France (1940 | 1944)
- Dedication
- To the memory of Richard Cobb (1917-1996)
- First words
- The rules of the Academy of Tours forbid the audience from asking the speaker questions but not, it appears, from causing a riot. -Introduction
On 18 June 1940, as the recently formed government of Marshal Petain sued for an armistice, General de Gaulle, broadcasting on the BBC, famously told the French people that though the battle of France was lost. the war - a wo... (show all)rld war - was not over. -Chapter 1, Encounter - Original language
- English
- Canonical DDC/MDS
- 940.5344
- Canonical LCC
- D802.F8
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- English
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- Paper, Ebook
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