For the last fifty years, the German Occupation of France has been regarded as a period characterised by four things: cold, hunger, the absence of freedom and above all fear; a time when the indigenous population was cruelly and consistently oppressed by the army of occupation. The people of France were either bold members of the Resistance or craven collaborators. In this riveting and provocative study, Robert Gildea reveals a rather different story, a story which shows that the truth lies - as so often - somewhere in between.
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Robert Gildea is Reader in Modern History at the University of Oxford. His previous works include "France since 1945", "The Past in French History", "Barricades and Borders: Europe 1800-1914" and "Education in Provincial France".
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