Occupation: The Ordeal of France 1940-1944France was slow and somewhat ineffectual in organizing resistance movement. In Occupation Ian Ousby challenges the myth that France was liberated " by the whole of France." The author explores the Nazi occupation of France with superb detail and eyewitness accounts that range from famous figures like Simone de Beauvoir, Charles de Gaulle, Andre Gide, Jean-Paul Sartre and Gertrude Stein to ordinary citizens, forgotten heroes and traitors. |
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PART II The Shameful Peace
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PART III Resistance and Liberation
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EPILOGUE Division and Its Aftermath
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