About the Author

Robert Gildea is professor of modern French history at the University of Oxford and is the author of several influential books on twentieth-century French history. His 2002 book Marianne in Chains: Daily Life in the Heart of France During the German Occupation Gildea won the prestigious Wolfson History Prize. He is currently a fellow of Worcester College and lives in Oxford.

Reviews

'A daring and completely original account of the German occupation of France. Full of the telling anecdote, written at a fast pace, Marianne in Chains is both readable and scholarly, provocative and convincing' Ruth Harris, author of Lourdes: Body and Spirit in the Secular Age"