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  • La Vie en bleu

    France and the French since 1900

    by Rod Kedward ...
    Rod Kedward brings to life the great, and often terrible, dramas of modern France - the two cataclysmic wars, the Algerian disaster, the student and worker revolt of 1968 - but also explores the special worlds of the workplace, immigration, minorities, the role of women, and the politics of everyday life and collective memory. La Vie en Bleu is a history of people and events that tells a multitude ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The French Resistance and its Legacy

    by Emeritus Professor Rod Kedward ...
    Longlisted for the 2023 American Library in Paris Book AwardWith personal and colourful reflections on tracking down resisters to the Nazi occupation of France, The French Resistance and its Legacy offers a captivating set of insights into the very substance of resistance, and the challenges it poses. The book uses a wealth of stories and testimonies to foreground the importance of imagination and ... Read more

    $28.49 CAD

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  • When Paris Went Dark

    The City of Light Under German Occupation, 1940–1944

    by Ronald C. Rosbottom ...
    The spellbinding and revealing chronicle of the Nazi occupation of Paris during World War II." When Paris Went Dark: The City of Light Under German Occupation, 1940-1944 resonated eerily with 2017 America. . . . This book is a compelling, sobering warning about the dangers of complacency in the face of intolerance."―Celeste Ng, Wall Street JournalOn June fourteen, 1940, ... ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

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  • Les Parisiennes

    Resistance, Collaboration, and the Women of Paris Under Nazi Occupation

    by Anne Sebba ...
    The New York Times–bestselling author explores WWII Paris history and tells the stories of how women survived—or didn't—during the Nazi occupation.Paris in the 1940s was a place of fear, power, aggression, courage, deprivation, and secrets. During the occupation, the swastika flew from the Eiffel Tower and danger lurked on every corner. While Parisian men were either fighting at the front or ... Read more

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  • Paris After the Liberation 1944-1949

    Revised Edition

    by Antony Beevor, Artemis Cooper ...
    **"A rich and intriguing story whcih the authors disentangle with great skill."--Sunday TelegraphFrom Antony Beevor, the internationally bestselling author of D-Day and The Battle of Arnhem**In this brilliant synthesis of social, political, and cultural history, Antony Beevor and Artemis Cooper present a vivid and compelling portrayal of the City of Lights after its liberation. Paris became the ... Read more

    Was $12.99 CAD Now $8.99 CAD

  • August 1914

    France, the Great War, and a Month that Changed the World Forever

    by Bruno Cabanes ...
    Translated by Stephanie O'Hara ...
    A renowned military historian closely examines the first month of World War I in France.On August 1, 1914, war erupted into the lives of millions of families across France. Most people thought the conflict would last just a few weeks . . .Yet before the month was out, twenty-seven thousand French soldiers died on the single day of August 22 alone—the worst catastrophe in French military history. ... Read more

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  • Fighters in the Shadows

    A New History of the French Resistance

    by Robert Gildea ...
    The story of the French Resistance is central to French identity, but it is a story built on myths. 'La Résistance française' was not simply a national effort to free the country from German occupation, but a wider struggle, filled with conflicts and division. It included Spanish republicans, Italian and even German anti-Nazis. The defence against the Holocaust brought in Jewish resisters and ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • France: The Dark Years, 1940-1944

    by Julian Jackson ...
    The French call them 'the Dark Years'... This definitive new history of Occupied France explores the myths and realities of four of the most divisive years in French history. Taking in ordinary people's experiences of defeat, collaboration, resistance, and liberation, it uncovers the conflicting memories of occupation which ensure that even today France continues to debate the legacy of the Vichy ... Read more

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  • Suzanne's Children

    A Daring Rescue in Nazi Paris

    by Anne Nelson ...
    One of the untold stories of the Holocaust—the nail-biting drama of Suzanne Spaak, who risked and gave her life to save hundreds of Jewish children from deportation from Nazi Paris to Auschwitz “vividly dramatizes the stakes of acting morally in a time of brutality” (The Wall Street Journal).Suzanne Spaak was born into the Belgian Catholic elite and married into the country’s leading political ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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  • Bad Faith

    A Forgotten History of Family, Fatherland and Vichy France

    by Carmen Callil ...
    Bad Faith tells the story of one of history’s most despicable villains and con men—Louis Darquier de Pellepoix, Nazi collaborator and “Commissioner for Jewish Affairs” in France’s Vichy government.Darquier set about to eliminate Jews in France with brutal efficiency, delivering 75,000 men, women, and children to the Nazis and confiscating Jewish property, which he used for his own gain. Carmen ... Read more

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  • In the Shadows of Paris

    The Nazi Concentration Camp that Dimmed the City of Light

    by Anne Sinclair ...
    Translated by Sandra Smith ...
    2024 National Jewish Book Awards FinalistA personal journey into a family’s history gradually becomes a historical investigation into the lesser known tragedy of the Nazi’s mass arrests of prominent French Jews and their imprisonment at the “camp of slow death” just fifty miles from Paris.“This story has haunted me since I was a child,” begins Anne Sinclair in a personal journey to find answers ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Marianne In Chains

    by Robert Gildea ...
    For the last fifty years, the German Occupation of France has been regarded as a period characterised by four things: cold, hunger, the absence of freedom and above all fear; a time when the indigenous population was cruelly and consistently oppressed by the army of occupation. The people of France were either bold members of the Resistance or craven collaborators. In this riveting and provocative ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD