A Few Pitiful Traitors
David Drake: The French Resistance, 5 May 2016
Fighters in the Shadows: A New History of the French Resistance
by Robert Gildea.
Faber, 593 pp., £20, September 2015,978 0 571 28034 6 Show More
by Robert Gildea.
Faber, 593 pp., £20, September 2015,
Occupation Trilogy: ‘La Place de l’etoile’, ‘The Night Watch’, ‘Ring Roads’
by Patrick Modiano, translated by Caroline Hillier, Patricia Wolf and Frank Wynne.
Bloomsbury, 336 pp., £18.99, August 2015,978 1 4088 6790 7 Show More
by Patrick Modiano, translated by Caroline Hillier, Patricia Wolf and Frank Wynne.
Bloomsbury, 336 pp., £18.99, August 2015,
“... Two political forces dominated post-Liberation France: Charles de Gaulle, leader of the Free French and head of the provisional French government until January 1946; and the French Communist Party (PCF), at that point the biggest and most popular party in the country. As Robert Gildea explains in his perceptive new book, each constructed a myth about France’s behaviour during the war that served its own political interests; each claimed it had led the Resistance ... ”
