Resistance and Liberation : France at War, 1942-1945 Hardback
by Douglas (Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California) Porch
Part of the Armies of the Second World War series
Hardback
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In Resistance and Liberation, Douglas Porch continues his epic history of France at war.
Emerging from the debâcle of 1940, France faced the quandary of how to rebuild military power, protect the empire, and resuscitate its global influence.
While Charles de Gaulle rejected the armistice and launched his offshore crusade to reclaim French honor within the Allied camp, defeatists at Vichy embraced cooperation with the victorious Axis.
The book charts the emerging dynamics of la France libre and the Alliance, Vichy collaboration, and the swelling resistance to the Axis occupation.
From the campaigns in Tunisia and Italy to Liberation, Douglas Porch traces how de Gaulle sought to forge a French army and prevent civil war.
He captures the experiences of ordinary French men and women caught up in war and defeat, the choices they made, the trials they endured, and how this has shaped France's memory of those traumatic years.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:832 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:25/01/2024
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- ISBN:9781009161145
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:832 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:25/01/2024
- Category:
- ISBN:9781009161145
