Author: Gildea, Robert.
Title: Marianne in Chains: Daily Life in the Heart of France During the German Occupation.
Description: New York :Metropolitan Books, 2003. Hardcover. Dustjacket. 548 pp. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : as new. A startling and original view of the occupation of the French heartland. In France, the German occupation is called simply the dark years. There were only the good French who resisted and the bad French who collaborated. Marianne in Chains, a broad and provocative history, uncovers a rather different story, one in which the truth is more complex and humane. Drawing on previously unseen archives, firsthand interviews, diaries, and eyewitness accounts, Robert Gildea reveals everyday life in the heart of occupied France. He describes the pressing imperatives of work, food, transportation, and family obligations that led to unavoidable compromise and negotiation with the army of occupation. In the process, he sheds light on such subjects as forced labor, the role of the Catholic Church, the horizontal collaboration between French women and German soldiers, and, most surprisingly, the ambivalent attitude of ordinary people toward the Resistance. ISBN 9780805071689.

Keywords: HISTORY, World War, 1939-1945