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

This book explores the texture of everyday life for different parts of the wartime French population, focusing on human interactions at the micro level. It uses approaches from history, oral history, film, gender studies, and sociology to peer into the lives of ordinary men, women, and children and offers new perspectives on resistance, collaboration, war, and memory.

\n Format: Hardback
\n Length: 264 pages
\n Publication date: 28 June 2018
\n Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This comprehensive volume brings together a diverse array of seasoned and emerging scholars to explore the intricacies of daily existence for various segments of the wartime French population. It delves into coping mechanisms, forms of assistance, encounters with individuals or events, and the challenges posed by the Vichys National Revolution during this challenging period in French and European history. The book specifically emphasizes human interactions at the micro level, shedding light on the lived experiences within the complex social networks of this era. As French civilians navigated the violence of war, the constraints of occupation, the scarcity of daily necessities, and the fear of persecution, the text peers into the lives of ordinary men, women, and children, offering fresh perspectives on issues of resistance, collaboration, war, and memory. It tells some of the stories of the anonymous millions who endured, coped, laughed, played, and worked, either together at home or far apart in towns and villages across Occupied and Vichy France. Vichy France and Everyday Life is an indispensable resource for anyone with an interest in the social history of World War II or the history of France in the twentieth century.

\n Weight: 538g\n
Dimension: 164 x 241 x 25 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9781350011595\n \n