The Politics of Everyday Life in Vichy France: Foreigners, Undesirables, and Strangers, Shannon L. Fogg (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009), vii + 226 pp., cloth 80.00
More French- and English-speaking readers have been introduced to the “Dark Years” of World War II France through Irène Némirovsky's posthumously-published novel Suite Française than through any scholarly monograph. This may not be a bad thing. Némirovsky's substantial but incomplete book—...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2010
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2010, Volume: 24, Issue: 3, Pages: 479-482 |
| Review of: | The politics of everyday life in Vichy France (New York, NY [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2009) (Crane, Richard Francis)
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| Summary: | More French- and English-speaking readers have been introduced to the “Dark Years” of World War II France through Irène Némirovsky's posthumously-published novel Suite Française than through any scholarly monograph. This may not be a bad thing. Némirovsky's substantial but incomplete book—left unfinished when this Ukrainian-born Jew was deported in 1942 to her death at Auschwitz—offers a detailed and compelling picture of the complicated, often morally ambiguous, politics of everyday life after 1940, when the “Strange Defeat” marked the beginning, not the end, of France's sufferings at the hands of Nazi Germany. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcq049 |