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Marianne in Chains

Robert Gildea

How did ordinary French people actually get through four years of German occupation, when sorting them into heroes, collaborators and victims is too simple?

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Author
Robert Gildea

Why read it

  • You will stop sorting people in a crisis into heroes and villains, and see the choices they really faced
  • You will see how people in a hard situation keep their options open and play several roles at once
  • You will learn to doubt a national memory that fits too neatly, and ask what it leaves out

Who it is for

  • Someone who suspects the heroic story of wartime France is too neat
  • Someone studying how ordinary people live under an occupying power
  • A traveler to France curious about what wartime life was like

Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. 1. Encounter
  3. 2. Cohabitation
  4. 3. Separation
  5. 4. Bread
  6. 5. Circuses
  7. 6. Demonstrators
  8. 7. Trimmers
  9. 8. Saints
  10. 9. Sinners
  11. 10. Murder
  12. 11. Terror
  13. 12. Conscription
  14. 13. Disintegration
  15. 14. Liberation
  16. 15. Disappointment
  17. 16. Memories
  18. Conclusion

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