The French Resistance

Informationen zum Autor Olivier Wieviorka is Professor of History at the École Normale Supérieure de Cachan. Klappentext Olivier Wieviorkäs history of the French Resistance debunks lingering myths and offers fresh insight into social, political, and military aspects of its operation. He reveals not one but many interlocking homegrown groups often at odds over goals, methods, and leadership. Yet, despite a lack of unity, these fighters braved Nazism without blinking. Zusammenfassung Olivier Wieviorka’s history of the French Resistance debunks lingering myths and offers fresh insight into social, political, and military aspects of its operation. He reveals not one but many interlocking homegrown groups often at odds over goals, methods, and leadership. Yet, despite a lack of unity, these fighters braved Nazism without blinking.

Product details

• Authors: Olivier Wieviorka, Wieviorka Olivier
• Assisted by: Jane Marie Todd (Translation)
• Publisher: Belknap press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2016
• EAN: 9780674731226
• ISBN: 978-0-674-73122-6
• Dimensions: 170 mm x 245 mm x 45 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book; Frankreich, Europäische Geschichte, Zweiter Weltkrieg - Periode (1939 bis 1945), France, European History, War, HISTORY / Military / World War II, HISTORY / Military / General, HISTORY / Europe / France, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, History - Military / War, Second World War, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Modern warfare, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / European Theater