When Men Fell From the Sky - Civilians and Downed Airmen in Second World War Europe

A fascinating comparative history of the treatment of fallen airmen in Second World War Europe.

List of contents

Introduction: the international in the village; Part I. Blitz-Invasion in France, or Resistance Crushed: 1. Finding the volunteers of the Year 40; 2. The repression of the Republic's 'francs-tireurs'; Part II. 'Imminent invasion!': a very civil war in the United Kingdom: 3. Britain into battle: a people at war; 4. 'British humor' as an agent of civility; Part III. The Origins of the Resistance: Hiding Allies in France: 5. The resistance as mass local dynamic; 6. The Sequences of aid: between family and repression; 7. A civil society against two states; Part IV. Lynching in Germany, 1943-1945: defending the Nazi state: 8. The lynching of Allied airmen, an ordinary practice; 9. A revolutionary dynamic; 10. Lynch mobs: pre-constructed anger and Nazism in action; 11. Race at heart; Conclusion: an archeology of the moment.

About the author

Claire Andrieu is Professor emerita in contemporary history at Sciences Po Paris. Her previous publications include Resisting Genocide. The Multiple Forms of Rescue (co-ed.) (2011), and Spoliation et restitution des biens juifs en Europe (co-ed.) (2007). From 2011 to 2018, she was editor-in-chief of Violence de masse et Résistance / Massviolence & Resistance.

Summary

A comparative history of the treatment of fallen airmen by civilians in France, Germany and Britain during the Second World War. By considering why the treatment of these airmen contrasted so strongly in these countries, Claire Andrieu sheds new light on how civilians reacted when confronted with the war 'at home'

Product details

• Authors: Claire Andrieu, Claire (Institut D''etudes Politiques Andrieu
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.04.2023
• EAN: 9781009266680
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0926668-0
• No. of pages: 348
• Series: Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration; France, European History, Germany, HISTORY / Military / General, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Air forces & warfare, Second World War, United Kingdom, Great Britain, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Air forces and warfare, Modern warfare, c 1940 to c 1949, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), Other Warfare & Defence Issues, Other warfare and defence issues