Fighters in the Shadows: A New History of the French Resistance
Robert Gildea, "Fighters in the Shadows: A New History of the French Resistance"
English | ISBN: 0674286103 | 2015 | 608 pages | PDF | 35 MB
English | ISBN: 0674286103 | 2015 | 608 pages | PDF | 35 MB
The French Resistance has an iconic status in the struggle to liberate Nazi-occupied Europe, but its story is entangled in myths. Gaining a true understanding of the Resistance means recognizing how its image has been carefully curated through a combination of French politics and pride, ever since jubilant crowds celebrated Paris’s liberation in August 1944. Robert Gildea’s penetrating history of resistance in France during World War II sweeps aside “the French Resistance” of a thousand clichés, showing that much more was at stake than freeing a single nation from Nazi tyranny.
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