Readership: Scholars and students of modern France, the Second World War, and French cultural life; readers interested in Occupied France..
Julian Jackson, Queen Mary, University of London
"wide-ranging ... The story is regularly enriched by nuggets of unexpected information." - Patrick Marnham, Spectator, 7 July 2001
"a valuable addition to the continuing debate over France's collapse in 1940 and the Vichy government's subsequent cooperation with the Nazis" - Contemporary Review
"this analysis reads very fresh, as though what happened might have turned out differently" - The Guardian
Introduction Anticipations 1: The Shadow of War: Cultural Anxieties and Modern Nightmares 2: Rethinking the Republic 1890-1934 3: Class War/Civil War 4: The German Problem 5: The Daladier Moment: Prelude to Vichy or Republican Revival 6: The Debacle The Regime: National Revolution and Collaboration 7: The National Revolution 8: Collaboration 9: Collaborationism 10: Laval in Power 1942-43 The Regime, the Germans, and Administration 11: Propaganda,Policing, and Administration 12: Public Opinion, Vichy, and the Germans 13: Intellectuals, Artists, and Entertainers 14: Reconstructing Mankind 15: Vichy and the Jews The Resistance 16: The Free French 1940-1942 17: The Resistance 1940-1942 18: De Gaulle and the Resistance 1942 19: Power Struggles 20: Resistance in Society 21: The New France Liberation and After 22: Towards Liberation: January to June 1944 23: Liberations 24: A New France? 25: Remembering the Occupation
