Escape From Vichy - The Refugee Exodus to the French Caribbean

Informationen zum Autor Eric T. Jennings Klappentext Early in World War II, thousands of refugees traveled from France to Vichy-controlled Martinique, en route to safer shores in North, Central, and South America. While awaiting transfer, the exiles formed influential ties¿with one another and with local black dissidents. As Eric T. Jennings shows, what began as expulsion became a kind of rescue. Zusammenfassung Early in World War II, thousands of refugees traveled from France to Vichy-controlled Martinique, en route to safer shores in North, Central, and South America. While awaiting transfer, the exiles formed influential ties with one another and with local black dissidents. As Eric T. Jennings shows, what began as expulsion became a kind of rescue.

Product details

• Authors: Eric T Jennings, Eric T. Jennings, Jennings Eric T.
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2018
• EAN: 9780674983380
• ISBN: 978-0-674-98338-0
• No. of pages: 280
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Europe, European History, HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), HISTORY / Military / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, military history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Second World War, The Holocaust, History of the Americas, Modern warfare, c 1940 to c 1949, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust, History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / European Theater