Memory of War in France examines France in the era of world war through the unconventional eyes of the veteran, activist and novelist, César Fauxbras. It encompasses the French navy at war, the naval mutinies of 1919, the experience of unemployment, interwar pacifism, French defeat in 1940 and Paris under the heel of German occupation.
Cuprins
Preface Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction PART I: GREAT WAR AT SEA An Ordinary Sailor Black Sea Mutiny PART II: THE CRISIS OF THE 1930S Amongst the Unemployed A Candide for the 1930s Pacifism on the Precipice of War PART III: DEFEAT AND OCCUPATION Survey of Defeat 1940 Occupation Diary 1941-44 Epilogue Appendices Bibliography Index
Despre autor
MATT PERRY Reader in Labour History at Newcastle University, UK. He has published widely on aspects of twentieth-century labour history in Britain and France. His books include
Marxism and History,
The Jarrow Crusade: Protest and Legend, and
Prisoners of Want: the Experience and Protests of the French Unemployed 1921-45.
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