Fleeing Hitler - France 1940

Zusatztext a major contribution Informationen zum Autor Hanna Diamond is Senior Lecturer in French History in the Department of European Studies at the University of Bath. She lived and taught in Paris for many years and has spent her career researching into the lives of the French people during the twentieth century. Her previous book, Women and the Second World War in France 1939-48: choices and constraints is also based on personal narratives and oral history. It was the first to explore the range of women's experiences of the war. She is currently working on a micro history of a mining community in southern France. Klappentext Historian Diamond paints a gripping picture of the harrowing escape from Paris as Hitlers armies approached the city. Using eyewitness accounts, memoirs, and diaries, Diamond shows how this ordeal became for civilians and soldiers alike the defining experience of the war. Zusammenfassung The first ever account of how the fall of France to the Germans in 1940 affected the lives of ordinary French people. Using eyewitness accounts, Hanna Diamond tells a story of mass exodus, defeat, humiliation, and occupation - opening the way for the triumph of the Vichy regime under Marshal Pétain. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Paris: June 1940 Part One: Exodus 1: The Invasion of Paris 2: On the Road Part Two: Reactions to Defeat 3: Death of the Third Republic 4: The People's Decisions Part Three: Home or Exile 5: Summer-Autumn 1940 6: Back to 'Normal'? Afterword: Forgetting and Remembering the Exodus Further Reading

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• Authors: Hanna Diamond, Hanna (Senior Lecturer in French History Diamond, Diamond Hanna
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.06.2007
• EAN: 9780192806185
• ISBN: 978-0-19-280618-5
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History; Oral History, European History, HISTORY / Military / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, Second World War, Social and cultural history, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Modern warfare, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General