Resistance and Liberation - France At War, 1942-1945

In Resistance and Liberation, Douglas Porch continues his epic history of France at war. Emerging from the debacle of 1940, France faced the quandary of how to rebuild military power, protect the empire, and resuscitate its global influence. While Charles de Gaulle rejected the armistice and launched his offshore crusade to reclaim French honor within the Allied camp, defeatists at Vichy embraced cooperation with the victorious Axis. The book charts the emerging dynamics of la France libre and the Alliance, Vichy collaboration, and the swelling resistance to the Axis occupation. From the campaigns in Tunisia and Italy to Liberation, Douglas Porch traces how de Gaulle sought to forge a French army and prevent civil war. He captures the experiences of ordinary French men and women caught up in war and defeat, the choices they made, the trials they endured, and how this has shaped France's memory of those traumatic years.

Product details

• Authors: Douglas Porch, Douglas (Naval Postgraduate School Porch
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2024
• EAN: 9781009161145
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0916114-5
• No. of pages: 838
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 235 mm x 40 mm
• Series: Armies of the Second World War
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); France, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Second World War, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General, History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / European Theater