Table of Contents

Introduction
Historians and the Occupation
Anticipations
1: The Shadow of War: Cultural Anxieties and Modern Nightmares
2: Rethinking the Republic 1890-1934
3: Class War/Civil War
4: The German Problem
5: The Daladier Moment: Prelude to Vichy or Republican Revival
6: The Debacle
The Regime: National Revolution and Collaboration
7: The National Revolution
8: Collaboration
9: Collaborationism
10: Laval in Power 1942-43
The Regime, the Germans, and Administration
11: Propaganda,Policing, and Administration
12: Public Opinion, Vichy, and the Germans
13: Intellectuals, Artists, and Entertainers
14: Reconstructing Mankind
15: Vichy and the Jews
The Resistance
16: The Free French 1940-1942
17: The Resistance 1940-1942
18: De Gaulle and the Resistance 1942
19: Power Struggles
20: Resistance in Society
21: The New France
Liberation and After
22: Towards Liberation: January to June 1944
23: Liberations
24: A New France?
25: Remembering the Occupation

About the Author

Julian Jackson is a Professor of History at the University of Wales, Swansea.

Reviews

wide-ranging ... The story is regularly enriched by nuggets of unexpected information. Patrick Marnham, Spectator, 7 July 2001 a valuable addition to the continuing debate over France's collapse in 1940 and the Vichy government's subsequent cooperation with the Nazis Contemporary Review this analysis reads very fresh, as though what happened might have turned out differently The Guardian

wide-ranging ... The story is regularly enriched by nuggets of unexpected information. Patrick Marnham, Spectator, 7 July 2001 a valuable addition to the continuing debate over France's collapse in 1940 and the Vichy government's subsequent cooperation with the Nazis Contemporary Review this analysis reads very fresh, as though what happened might have turned out differently The Guardian

People from other Allied countries joke that, according to the French, every one of them participated in the resistance to German occupation during WWII. Jackson, a professor of history at the University of Wales-Swansea, spares no one in exploring not only the events of wartime France, but also developments in historical perspectives on the collaborationist Vichy regime and the Resistance. Moreover, he looks forward to future revelations. Between these endpoints lies a convoluted landscape bearing little resemblance to the usual simplistic pictures. Jackson's excellent study is timely those who remember the occupation will not be around us much longer. It has been a generation since the last general history of occupied France, and during that time, scholars have done much research on which Jackson draws. Beginning his history with the formation of the politics and society of the Third Republic, he exposes France's past in all its contradictions and complexities: the Resistance forces' diverse membership, including women, Jews, farm workers and foreigners; the latent forces in French government and culture that allowed for an easy transition to the Vichy government; Marshal P?tain's increasing popularity while support for Vichy flagged. In liberated Paris, de Gaulle alleged that the French Republic "never ceased to exist" during occupation. "According to this reinterpretation," writes Jackson, "most of the horrors inflicted on France had been the work of the Germans alone." This insightful, thoroughly researched book will be of interest to scholars and general readers, who will come away with a profound understanding of a crucial time in French history. Jackson does readers a service, for at least another generation. 3 maps. (Sept.) Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.