Marianne in chains : everyday life in the French heartland under the German occupation / by Robert Gildea
by Gildea, Robert
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New York : Metropolitan Books, 2003. First US Edition. Hardcover. A startling and original view of the occupation of the French heartland, based on a new investigation of everyday life under Nazi ruleIn France, the German occupation is called simply the dark years. There were only the good French who resisted and the bad French who collaborated. Marianne in Chains, a broad and provocative history, uncovers a rather different story, one in which the truth is more complex and humane. Drawing on previously unseen archives, firsthand interviews, diaries, and eyewitness accounts, Robert Gildea reveals everyday life in the heart of occupied France. He describes the pressing imperatives of work, food, transportation, and family obligations that led to unavoidable compromise and negotiation with the army of occupation. In the process, he sheds light on such subjects as forced labor, the role of the Catholic Church, the horizontal collaboration between French women and German soldiers, and, most surprisingly, the ambivalent attitude of ordinary people toward the Resistance. A great work of reconstruction, Marianne in Chains provides a clear view, unobscured by romance or polemics, of the painful ambiguities of living under tyranny. An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new.; 507 pages; Description: x, 507 p. : ill. , maps ; 25 cm. Originally published: London : Macmillan, 2002. Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 --France --History --German occupation, 1940-1945
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- Title
- Marianne in chains : everyday life in the French heartland under the German occupation / by Robert Gildea
- Author
- Gildea, Robert
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
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- First US Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0805071687
- ISBN 13
- 9780805071689
- Publisher
- New York : Metropolitan Books
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 2003
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