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Richard J. Evans: The French Resistance, 3 November 2016
The French Resistance
by Olivier Wieviorka, translated by Jane Marie Todd.
Harvard, 569 pp., £31.95, April 2016,978 0 674 73122 6 Show More
by Olivier Wieviorka, translated by Jane Marie Todd.
Harvard, 569 pp., £31.95, April 2016,
“... as a whole had triumphed against the Nazis and its puppet government in Vichy. The reality, as Olivier Wieviorka shows in this magisterial book, ably translated by Jane Marie Todd, was rather different. De Gaulle had not in fact called on the entire French population to rise up in 1940, but had tried to persuade officers and ... ”
