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Genre/Form: | History |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Nicole Dombrowski Risser |
ISBN: | 9781107025325 110702532X |
OCLC Number: | 784577132 |
Description: | xv, 312 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Introduction: no more 'behind the lines' -- Part I. Civilians in the Line of Fire: 1. Securing the homeland; 2. Mothers move against military and bureaucratic entrenchment; 3. Pulling the plug on the city of lights; 4. Civilian survival on the open road -- Part II. Refugees, Rights, and Return in a Divided Land: 5. Provincial towns feed and shelter refugees; 6. Paving the road for refugees' return; 7. German exclusions inaugurate a policy of ethnic cleansing; 8. Disappointment and despair in the occupied zone -- Conclusion. |
Series Title: | Studies in the social and cultural history of modern warfare. |
Responsibility: | Nicole Dombrowski Risser. |
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'Using dramatic personal testimony, Dombrowski Risser uncovers how the 1940 'Exodus' politicized women, what the longer-term repercussions of mass migration were, and how refugee return policies were used to exclude Jews and other 'undesirables'. France Under Fire significantly enriches historical scholarship on civilian displacement, German-French interplay during the French occupation, and ethnic cleansing during World War Two.' Julia Torrie, St Thomas University 'Risser's findings make a real contribution to our knowledge of this historical episode, now remote but still within living memory.' Ian Birchall, European History Quarterly 'An ambitious book, [Dombrowski] Risser sets out to examine the intersection of the civilian and military experience under total war by looking at the mass exodus and internal displacement of domestic and foreign refugees in France during World War II.' Lynne Taylor, H-France Read more...


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- France -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945.
- War -- Protection of civilians -- France.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Civilian relief -- France.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Refugees.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- France.
- HISTORY -- Military -- General.
- Civilian war relief.
- Refugees.
- War -- Protection of civilians.
- France.
- Bevölkerung
- Flucht
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- Andra världskriget 1939-1945.
- Tyska ockupationen av Frankrike 1940-1945.
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