Choices in Vichy France: The French under Nazi Occupation (1986)

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Format: Hardcover

ISBN: 0195037510

Condition: Good 

There is underlining throughout the book, and the book has a slight amount of shelf wear.

Book Description:

From interviews and private correspondence, Sweets meticulously reconstructs the experiences of individual men and women in Clermont-Ferrand in order to understand the dilemmas that occupation set before them. He finds that everything was made difficult and complex by the occupation; few decisions were simple and many had serious consequences. He concludes that our stereotyped notions of "resistance" and "collaboration" are inadequate to describe the reality of people's behavior under the extreme circumstances of war and occupation, and he reformulates these notions to better correspond with the conditions of the era. - from the inside flap