The French Resistance and Its Legacy
The French Resistance and Its Legacy With personal and colourful reflections on tracking down resisters to the Nazi occupation of France, The French Resistance and its Legacy offers a captivating set…
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The French Resistance and Its Legacy
With personal and colourful reflections on tracking down resisters to the Nazi occupation of France, The French Resistance and its Legacy offers a captivating set of insights into the very substance of resistance, and the challenges it poses. The language in which we talk about resistance is shown to be enriched and challenged by Holocaust research, by the necessity of gender studies, and by the significance of place and time, of myth, legend and exile. The book uses a wealth of stories and testimonies to foreground the importance of imagination and inventiveness at the heart of resistance.The book insists on the primacy of context, not just the contexts of the creation and development of resistance but also those of historical debate at different moments since the war.
Disguise and secrecy were necessities for those creating resistance in France and still have an