Description
Author: Zaretsky, Robert
Publisher: Pennsylvania State U. P.
Place: University Park
Cover: stiff wrappers
Condition: As New
Category: WW2 Military
Year: 1995
Edition: 1st edition
Size: 8vo.
Description: xi + 276pp., map,, bibliog., index, While many studies of Vichy France have either focused on specific lives or ideas or covered the period in broad and synthetic terms, local studies such as this promise to nuance our understanding of wartime France. By concentrating on the city of Nmes and the department of the Gard, Zaretsky moves beyond generalizations concerning resistance and collaboration to consider issues of historical continuity and change within a specific local context. In the words and acts of local French men and women, he finds the character of “mentalities” in the heart of our own century.