Download or read book Les Prisonniers de guerre Vichy et la R sistance written by Jean Védrine and published by Fayard. This book was released on 2013-11-20 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ce livre est un monument, un mémorial consacré à une génération d’hommes qui a combattu dans l’armée française en 1940, vécu la débâcle et partagé le sort d’un million de prisonniers de guerre. Evadés ou rapatriés, beaucoup se sont engagés, à l’instar de Jean Védrine, dans les organismes de l’Etat français dédiés au rapatriement et au « reclassement » des prisonniers. Certains ont servi Vichy, consacrant leur effort à l’action sociale en direction de leurs anciens compagnons d’arme et de leurs familles. D’autres sont passés à la résistance, parfois immédiatement, parfois plus progressivement, tel François Mitterrand. Leurs parcours sont situés dans cette zone grise où le patriotisme, l’attachement à la « communauté » des prisonniers, la volonté de libérer le pays ne sont pas exempts d’une grande fidélité au maréchal Pétain, voire d’une adhésion aux principes de la révolution nationale, bousculées par l’engagement du régime dans une collaboration à laquelle l’immense majorité de ces hommes n’adhéraient pas. L'ouvrage rassemble les témoignages de ces hommes, véritable histoire d'une résistance, recueillis à un moment où les premiers d’entre eux disparaissaient, au cœur des années 1970. Grâce à Hubert Védrine, fils de Jean et ancien ministre de François Mitterrand, ce dossier inédit sort de l'oubli. L’historienne Johanna Barasz a effectué l’appareil critique qui permet au lecteur de découvrir les organisations et les relations entre les personnalités. La préface de Jean-Pierre Azéma replace cette œuvre dans la complexité de l’époque.
Download or read book Dossier written by Jean Védrine and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 931 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Recueil de témoignages, d'informations et de commentaires sur les activités, en France, des Prisonniers de guerre (PG), evadés ou rapatriés avant 1945, dans l'administration, l'action sociale et la Résistance. Dossier réalisé par Jean Védrine, secrétaire général de la Fédération nationale des prisonniers de guerre en 1945. Par la suite, il a été directeur adjoint du cabinet de François Mitterrand et a joué un rôle important dans la décolonisation, notamment au Maroc. Il a également travaillé avec Edgar Faure."--P. [4] of cover.
Download or read book Les prisonniers de guerre fran ais en 40 written by Fabien Théofilakis and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Prisonnier de guerre r sistant written by Jean Pierre Helbert and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Prisonniers de guerre written by Evelyne Gayme and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-18 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La 4e de couv. : "Durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, la captivité n'a pas seulement concerné près de deux millions de soldats français. En effet, chaque parent, chaque épouse, chaque proche, tous la subissent dans l'inquiétude et, souvent, dans les privations. Après la guerre, viennent les difficultés du retour dans la vie familiale et professionnelle et, pour nombre d'entre eux, les tourments de la réclusion se prolongent au travers de douloureuses séquelles physiques et psychiques. Dans cet ouvrage, Evelyne Gayme s'attache à répondre à de multiples questions. Quelles furent les véritables conditions de détention dans les Stalags et dans les Oflags ? Comment, dans cette « étrange défaite », les prisonniers vécurent-ils leur condition de vaincus ? Comment devinrent-ils un enjeu dans la politique de Vichy ? Et comment ces hommes furent-ils accueillis à leur libération ? Plus tard, souhaitant transmettre aux générations suivantes le souvenir de ces sombres années, certains écrivent, beaucoup racontent leur vie quotidienne en Allemagne. S'appuyant sur des témoignages jamais étudiés, Evelyne Gayme révèle ainsi la forte empreinte laissée dans la société française par cette épreuve collective, depuis 1940 jusqu'à nos jours."
Download or read book The Bettencourt Affair written by Tom Sancton and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-08-07 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An NPR Best Book of 2017 Heiress to the nearly forty-billion-dollar L’Oréal fortune, Liliane Bettencourt was the world’s richest woman and the fourteenth wealthiest person. But her gilded life took a dark yet fascinating turn in the past decade. At ninety-four, she was embroiled in what has been called the Bettencourt Affair, a scandal that dominated the headlines in France. Why? It’s a tangled web of hidden secrets, divided loyalties, frayed relationships, and fractured families, set in the most romantic city—and involving the most glamorous industry—in the world. The Bettencourt Affair started as a family drama but quickly became a massive scandal, uncovering L’Oréal’s shadowy corporate history and buried World War II secrets. From the Right Bank mansions to the Left Bank artist havens; and from the Bettencourts’ servant quarters to the office of President Nicolas Sarkozy; all of Paris was shaken by the blockbuster case, the shocking reversals, and the surprising final victim. It all began when Liliane met François-Marie Banier, an artist and photographer who was, in his youth, the toast of Paris and a protégé of Salvador Dalí. Over the next two decades, Banier was given hundreds of millions of dollars in gifts, cash, and insurance policies by Liliane. What, exactly, was their relationship? It wasn’t clear, least of all to Liliane’s daughter and only child, Françoise, who became suspicious of Banier’s motives and filed a lawsuit against him. But Banier has a far different story to tell... The Bettencourt Affair is part courtroom drama; part upstairs-downstairs tale; and part characterdriven story of a complex, fascinating family and the intruder who nearly tore it apart.
Download or read book The Cartiers written by Francesca Cartier Brickell and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A dynamic group biography studded with design history and high-society dash . . . [This] elegantly wrought narrative bears the Cartier hallmark.”—The Economist The “astounding” (André Leon Talley) story of the family behind the Cartier empire and the three brothers who turned their grandfather’s humble Parisian jewelry store into a global luxury icon—as told by a great-granddaughter with exclusive access to long-lost family archives “Ms. Cartier Brickell has done her grandfather proud.”—The Wall Street Journal The Cartiers is the revealing tale of a jewelry dynasty—four generations, from revolutionary France to the 1970s. At its heart are the three Cartier brothers whose motto was “Never copy, only create” and who made their family firm internationally famous in the early days of the twentieth century, thanks to their unique and complementary talents: Louis, the visionary designer who created the first men’s wristwatch to help an aviator friend tell the time without taking his hands off the controls of his flying machine; Pierre, the master dealmaker who bought the New York headquarters on Fifth Avenue for a double-stranded natural pearl necklace; and Jacques, the globe-trotting gemstone expert whose travels to India gave Cartier access to the world’s best rubies, emeralds, and sapphires, inspiring the celebrated Tutti Frutti jewelry. Francesca Cartier Brickell, whose great-grandfather was the youngest of the brothers, has traveled the world researching her family’s history, tracking down those connected with her ancestors and discovering long-lost pieces of the puzzle along the way. Now she reveals never-before-told dramas, romances, intrigues, betrayals, and more. The Cartiers also offers a behind-the-scenes look at the firm’s most iconic jewelry—the notoriously cursed Hope Diamond, the Romanov emeralds, the classic panther pieces—and the long line of stars from the worlds of fashion, film, and royalty who wore them, from Indian maharajas and Russian grand duchesses to Wallis Simpson, Coco Chanel, and Elizabeth Taylor. Published in the two-hundredth anniversary year of the birth of the dynasty’s founder, Louis-François Cartier, this book is a magnificent, definitive, epic social history shown through the deeply personal lens of one legendary family.
Download or read book Defeat and Division written by Douglas Porch and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-25 with total page 745 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Defeat and Division launches a definitive new account of France in the Second World War. In this first volume, Douglas Porch dissects France's 1940 collapse, the dynamics of occupation, and the rise of Charles de Gaulle's Free France crusade, culminating in the November 1942 Allied invasion of French North Africa. He captures the full sweep of France's wartime experience in Europe, Africa, and beyond, from soldiers and POWs to civilians-in-arms, colonial subjects, and foreign refugees. He recounts France's struggles to reconstruct military power within the context of a global conflict, with its armed forces shattered into warring factions and the country under Axis occupation. Disagreements over the causes of the 1940 debacle and the subsequent requirement for the armistice mirrored long-standing fractures in politics, society, and the French military itself, as efforts to reconstitute French military power crumbled into Vichy collaboration, De Gaulle's exile resistance, Alsace-Moselle occupation struggles, and a scuffle for imperial supremacy.
Download or read book The Riviera at War written by George G. Kundahl and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-30 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During World War II three distinct forces opposed the Allies - Germany, Italy, and Japan. Few areas of the world experienced domination by more than a single one of these, but southeastern France - the region popularly known as the Riviera or Cote d'Azur - was one. Not only did inhabitants suffer through Italian Fascism and German Nazism but also under a third hardship at times even more oppressive - the rule of Vichy France. Following a nine-month prelude, the reality of World War II burst onto the Riviera in June 1940 when the region had to defend itself against the Italian army and ended in April 1945 with a battle against German and Italian forces in April 1945, a period longer than any other part of France. In this book, George G. Kundahl tells for the first time the full story of World War II on the French Riviera. Featuring previously unseen sources and photographs, this will be essential reading for anyone interested in wartime France.
Download or read book Prisoners of War written by and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-05-05 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Second World War between the Axis and Allied powers saw over 20 million soldiers taken as prisoners of war. Prisoners of War uses a series of case studies to illuminate the personal and collective histories of those who experienced captivity in Eastern and Western Europe during the war and their repatriation and reintegration afterwards.
Download or read book Verdict on Vichy written by Michael Curtis and published by Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2003-06-06 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This masterful book is the first comprehensive reappraisal of the Vichy France regime for over 20 years. France was occupied by Nazi Germany between 1940 and 1944, and the exact nature of France's role in the Vichy years is only now beginning to come to light. One of the main reasons that the Vichy history is difficult to tell is that some of France's most prominent politicians, including President Mitterand, have been implicated in the regime. This has meant that public access to key documents has been denied and it is only now that an objective analysis is possible. The fate of France as an occupied country could easily have been shared by Britain, and it is this background element, which enhances our fascination with Vichy France. How would we have acted under similar circumstances? The divisions and repercussions of the Vichy years still resonate in France today, and whether you view the regime as a fascist dictatorship, an authoritarian offshoot of the Third Reich or an embodiment of heightened French nationalism, Curtis's rounded, incisive book will be seen as the standard work on its subject for many years. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in history--books about World War II, the Third Reich, Hitler and his henchmen, the JFK assassination, conspiracies, the American Civil War, the American Revolution, gladiators, Vikings, ancient Rome, medieval times, the old West, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
Download or read book Resistance and Liberation written by Douglas Porch and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-25 with total page 833 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New history of la France libre, Vichy collaboration, and the resistance from the campaigns in Tunisia and Italy to Liberation.
Download or read book In Search of the Maquis Rural Resistance in Southern France 1942 1944 written by H. R. Kedward and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1993-03-11 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a study of the Maquis in southern France, the Resisters who took to the woods and hills in the struggle against the German Occupation in the Second World War. H. R. Kedward's detailed and perceptive account explores what participation in the Maquis meant for those involved both at the time and subsequently. He examines the motivations of the maquisards and how the circumstances of occupation and resistance affected the ways of life of rural communities in the south of France. This is a rich and original book, which achieves a fruitful integration of extensive archival research and oral history. Professor Kedward's scholarly and readable history allows the voices of individuals to be heard, and offers us important insights into the nature of community and regional tradition. From the many fascinating case-studies, fully supplemented by detailed maps, emerge a sense of place, a clearer understanding of the maquisard, and an unsentimental assessment of the place of the Maquis in French history. -
Download or read book Vichy written by Eric Conan and published by UPNE. This book was released on 1998 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A plea for a more moderate, balanced, and accurate view of the Vichy regime.
Download or read book The French Resistance and its Legacy written by Rod Kedward and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-08-11 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 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. 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. Disguise and secrecy were necessities for those creating resistance in France and still have an alluring mystery, but this book is designed to open up that mystery, and not allow it to be used to keep resistance in the footnotes of military history. Rod Kedward argues with conviction that emergence from the shadows is a vital role of resistance research and, not least, of resistance testimony, whether written or spoken. The scattered extracts from the author's interviews to be found throughout are a pointer towards specific personalities and circumstance at both the time of resistance and the time of the testimony. Kedward does not interrogate the importance of this time distinction. Instead he implicitly suggests that there is an oral history to all events, whether captured at the time or later, and this should be seen as relevant to our talking and our understanding. The book as a whole celebrates where history, literature, film and testimony interact, to make talking about resistance both an art and a discovery. It ends with a challenging conclusion that is of seminal importance for the history of resistance in and beyond France, across both time and place.
Download or read book Hostages of Empire written by Sarah Ann Frank and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2021-07 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hostages of Empire is a social, cultural, and political history of the colonial prisoners of war.
Download or read book The Mitterrand Years written by Mairi Maclean and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A considered look at the Mitterrand presidency as a whole, its place in French history, and the trends for the twenty-first century emerging under Chirac. The fourteen years during which Mitterrand was at the helm ushered in fundamental change in many different domains, as France faced up to new challenges in an increasingly uncertain world. This study evaluates the impact and legacy of the Mitterrand years in the following key areas: the Republic; socialism; Europe and foreign affairs; business and the economy; society; and culture.
