Shameful Peace

Informationen zum Autor Frederic Spotts is an independent scholar who has written widely on cultural topics! published books on German and Italian politics! and edited The Letters of Leonard Woolf. He is the author of Bayreuth: A History of the Wagner Festival and! most recently! Hitler and the Power of Aesthetics. He lives in France. Klappentext Subtitled! "How French Artists & Intellectuals Survived The Nazi Occupation". Zusammenfassung The German occupation of France from 1940 to 1945 presented wrenching challenges for the nation's artists and intellectuals. Some were able to flee the country; those who remained! responded in various ways. This book provides a full account of how France's artistic leaders coped under the crushing German presence.

Product details

• Authors: Frederic Spotts, Spotts Frederic
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.03.2010
• EAN: 9780300163995
• ISBN: 978-0-300-16399-5
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 235 mm x 23 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; History, prehistory, HISTORY / Europe / France, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, General and world history, Biography: historical, political and military, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General, The arts: general topics