Olivier Wieviorka is Professor of History at the École Normale Supérieure de Cachan.
The work of [a] seasoned scholar and energetic researcher…The
ultimate question is what difference the French Resistance really
made. Wieviorka considers this matter most fully.
*New York Review of Books*
[Wieviorka] carefully traces the evolution of the often-fraught
relationship between the internal Resistance in France and Charles
de Gaulle’s London-based Free French, the Resistance’s growing
complexity (and costliness) as a bureaucracy, and its debates over
goals and approaches…Few historians can navigate the complexities
of this period with Wieviorka’s skill and assurance.
*Chronicle of Higher Education*
This is an impressive synthesis which…is now one of the starting
points for understanding the French Resistance.
*History Today*
The Resistance has found its historian.
*Le Point*
Olivier Wieviorka [is] one of the most brilliant historians of his
generation.
*L’Express*
Wieviorka brings important insights into a critical and often
misunderstood topic. Going beyond the myths and partisanship
surrounding the Resistance, and World War II more generally, this
book will help set the tone for future work on the period.
*Michael S. Neiberg, author of The Blood of Free Men: The
Liberation of Paris, 1944*
A wide-ranging synthesis that treats a compelling subject with an
equal mix of critical intelligence and deep respect. For serious,
thoughtful readers who want to get a look at the Resistance as the
most recent scholarship now sees it, with many of the mythic
cobwebs swept away, this is the book for them.
*Philip Nord, author of France 1940: Defending the
Republic*
An admirable history and the best single-volume work on the subject
so far.
*Literary Review*
Magisterial…Wieviorka shows that the Resistance was divided and
fragmented from the start, and that the many and varied
organizations that constituted it were often driven by political
ideology…[An] engrossing book.
*London Review of Books*
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