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War tourism : Second World War France from defeat and occupation to the creation of heritage

Author: Bertram M Gordon
Publisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2018. ©2018
Edition/Format:  Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"This book addresses the linkages between tourism and war, focusing on tourism by German personnel and French civilians during the Second World War and on postwar memory tourism"--
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Genre/Form: History
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Gordon, Bertram M., 1945-
War tourism.
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2018
(DLC) 2018018664
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Bertram M Gordon
ISBN: 9781501715877 1501715879
OCLC Number: 1029442519
Description: x, 307 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents: Introduction : tourism, aesthetics, and war --
The emergence of France as a tourist icon in the Belle Époque --
Two 1940 locales as sites and symbols : the Maginot Line and the Compiègne railway car --
French tourism in their occupied country --
German tourism in occupied France 1940-1944 --
The liberation, 1944 : Normandy and Paris --
Tourism and the war : Free French and resistance sites : Vichy and its discontents --
Tourism, war, and memory in France since the war --
Conclusion : aftermath and the question of appropriate remembrance : French tourism and its self-images of the Second World War to the present.
Responsibility: Bertram M. Gordon.

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