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The Cruel Victory : The French Resistance, D-Day and the Battle for the Vercors 1944
by Ashdown, Paddy
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About This Item
London: Collins, 2014. 1st edition. Nice Copy. octavo. dust jacket xii + 472pp., b/w pls., maps, appends., bibliog., index, ÔIn early 1941, three separate groups of plotters; one military, one political, one intellectual - began to organise and plan on and around the forbidding mountainous plateau near Grenoble; the Vercors. The aims of the groups were the same: to hasten the departure of the German occupiers; to restore the pride of France after its fall and the humiliations of the puppet Vichy government which followed; and to build a new France. The overwhelming desire to get rid of the Germans would unite them. Their different views of the France they hoped for in the future would divide themÕ
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- Title
- The Cruel Victory : The French Resistance, D-Day and the Battle for the Vercors 1944
- Author
- Ashdown, Paddy
- Book Condition
- Used - Nice Copy
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Publisher
- Collins
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2014
- Size
- octavo
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