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The Resistance in Western Europe, 1940-1945 is a sweeping analytical history of the underground anti-Nazi forces during World War II. Examining clandestine organizations in Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, and Italy, Olivier Wieviorka sheds new light on the factors that shaped the resistance and its place in the grand scheme of Anglo-American military strategy. While national actors played a leading role in fomenting resistance, British and American intelligence services and propaganda as well as financial, material, and logistical support were crucial to its activities and growth. Wieviorka illuminates the policies of governments in exile and resistance actors regarding cooperation with the British and Americans, pointing to the persistence of national self-interest and long-standing historical tensions. Drawing on a wide range of archival sources and bringing together the political, diplomatic, and military dimensions of the conflict, this book is the first account of the resistance on a continental scale and from a trans-European perspective.
Table des matières
Foreword, by Robert O. Paxton
List of Maps
List of Abbreviations
Prelude: A Glowing Picture
1. Reinventing a Coalition
2. Set Europe Ablaze!
3. Internecine Struggles
4. Ententes Cordiales?
5. Legitimacy at Stake
6. The Dual Shock of 1941 and Its Consequences
7. Coming of Age
8. Developments
9. Compulsory Labor: An Opportunity or a Curse?
10. Mixed Results
11. Taking Up Arms
12. Propaganda
13. Cadres
14. Minor Maneuvers, Major Policies
15. Italian Complexities
16. Planning for Liberation
17. Plans and Instructions
18. Political Liberation
19. Action!
20. Peripheries
21. Order or Chaos?
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
A propos de l'auteur
Olivier Wieviorka is professor of history at the École normale supérieure de Paris-Saclay. His books in English include The French Resistance (2016), also translated by Jane Marie Todd.
Robert O. Paxton is Mellon Professor Emeritus of Social Science at Columbia University. His books include Vichy France: Old Guard and New Order (Columbia, revised edition, 2001).
Jane Marie Todd (1957–2021) translated more than ninety books for university presses and art museums, including Claude Lévi-Strauss’s We Are All Cannibals (Columbia, 2016).
Résumé
The Resistance in Western Europe is a sweeping analytical history of the underground anti-Nazi forces during World War II. Examining clandestine organizations in Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, and Italy, Olivier Wieviorka sheds new light on the factors that shaped the resistance and its place in Anglo-American military strategy.
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His study is a welcome addition to WWII collections.
