Vichy France and Everyday Life: Confronting the Challenges of Wartime, 1939-1945

TitleVichy France and Everyday Life: Confronting the Challenges of Wartime, 1939-1945
Publication TypeBook
Year of Publication2018
AuthorsDodd, Lindsey, and David Lees
Number of Pages253
PublisherBloomsbury Academic
CityLondon
Abstract

This wide-ranging volume brings together a blend of experienced and emerging scholars to examine the texture of everyday life for different parts of the wartime French population. It explores systems of coping, means of helping one another, confrontations with people or events and the challenges posed to and by Vichy's National Revolution during this difficult period in French and European history. The book focuses on human interactions at the micro level, highlighting lived experience within the complex social networks of this era, as French civilians negotiated the violence of war, the restrictions of Occupation, the shortages of daily necessities and the fear of persecution in their everyday lives. This text peers into the lives of ordinary men, women and children and opens new perspectives on questions of resistance, collaboration, war and memory; it tells some of the stories of the anonymous millions who suffered, coped, laughed, played and worked across Occupied and Vichy France.

URLhttps://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/vichy-france-and-everyday-life-9781350011601/
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