France Under Fire - German Invasion, Civilian Flight Family Survival During World War II

Informationen zum Autor Nicole Dombrowski Risser is Associate Professor of History at Towson University in Maryland. She is editor of Women and War in the Twentieth Century: Enlisted With or Without Consent (1998). Klappentext A social, military and political history of the French refugee crisis tracing the impact of government responses upon civilian lives. Zusammenfassung By late June 1940 Germany's invasion of France had created an estimated eight million refugees. This is a compelling new history of the origins and development of this humanitarian crisis which examines the experiences of civilians caught up in the mass exodus and the impact of government responses. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: no more 'behind the lines'; Part I. Civilians in the Line of Fire: 1. Securing the homeland; 2. Mothers move against military and bureaucratic entrenchment; 3. Pulling the plug on the city of lights; 4. Civilian survival on the open road; Part II. Refugees, Rights, and Return in a Divided Land: 5. Provincial towns feed and shelter refugees; 6. Paving the road for refugees' return; 7. German exclusions inaugurate a policy of ethnic cleansing; 8. Disappointment and despair in the occupied zone; Conclusion.

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• Authors: Nicole Dombrowski Risser, Dombrowski Risser Nicole, Nicole Dombrowski Risser
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.07.2012
• EAN: 9781107025325
• ISBN: 978-1-107-02532-5
• No. of pages: 328
• Series: Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare; Studies in the Social and Cult; Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; History, France, European History, HISTORY / Military / General, military history, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Second World War, Modern warfare, c 1940 to c 1949