 | France since The Popular Front: Government and People 1936-1996 by Maurice Larkin
Buy new: £30.40 / Used from: £27.76 The best book to cover this period.
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 | France Between the Wars: Gender and Politics by Sian Reynolds
Buy new: £19.94 / Used from: £9.98 Excellent study of gender.
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 | France, 1934-70 (European Studies) by Richard Vinen
Buy new: £23.74 / Used from: £10.22 Puts the war in a slightly longer perspective.
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 | French Intellectuals and History: "Nouvelle Revue Francaise" Under Jean Paulhan, 1925-1940 (Faux Titre) by Martyn Cornick
Buy used from: £53.44 Interaction between history and culture by a talented scholar.
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 | The French at War 1934-1944 by Nicholas Atkin
Buy new: £12.99 / Used from: £5.00 A clearly written synthesis although the real title is 'French at war, 1934-1944'
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 | Communism and Collaboration: Simon Sabiani and Politics in Marseille, 1919-44 by Paul Jankowski
Buy used from: £9.70 One of the most readable books about any history. Really captures your attention.
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 | Marianne In Chains: In Search of the German Occupation 1940-45 by Robert Gildea
Buy used from: £0.01 Interesting local study.
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 | The Politics of French Business 1936-1945 by Richard Vinen
Buy new: £28.49 / Used from: £32.51 Controversial but with flashes of brilliance.
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 | Petain (Profiles In Power) by Nicholas Atkin
Buy used from: £4.20 A well-balanced biography.
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 | France Under the Germans by Philippe Burrin
Buy used from: £4.30 An important study although underplays the Resistance.
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| De Gaulle (Profiles In Power) by A. Shennan
Buy new: £17.99 / Used from: £0.01 Very clear biography of an important figure to emerge during the period.
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 | Resistance in Western Europe
Buy new: £17.09 / Used from: £11.50 Only one chapter focused solely on France but the text is excellent for putting France in comparative perspective.
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 | The Forgotten French: Exiles in the British Isles, 1940-44 by Nicholas Atkin
Buy used from: £0.15 The French in Britain who did NOT join de Gaulle.
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 | The Holocaust and the Jews of Marseille: The Enforcement of Anti-Semitic Policies in Vichy France by Donna F. Ryan
Buy used from: £22.95 A local study of the French contribution to the holocaust.
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| Nimes at War: Religion, Politics and Public Opinion in the Gard, 1938-44 by Robert Zaretsky
Buy used from: £5.17 Excellent local study.
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 | The French Empire at War, 1940-45 (Studies in Imperialism) by Martin Thomas
Buy used from: £80.00 One of the best books ever written about the French Empire.
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| The politics of resistance in France, 19401944: A history of the Mouvements unis de la Résistance by John F Sweets
Buy used from: £27.91 Politics and Resistance, Resistance and Politics. Excellent stuff.
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 | Rethinking France: Plans for Renewal 1940-1946 by Andrew Shennan
Buy new: £66.50 / Used from: £18.38 A well researched and well organised study of plans for rebuilding French society.
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| France, 1943-1945 (The Politics of Liberation Series) by Hilary Footitt
Buy used from: £23.71 An excellent account of the Liberation.
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 | Bourgeois Politics in France, 1945-1951 by Richard Vinen
Buy new: £33.25 / Used from: £31.12 The rebuilding process.
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 | The Legacy of Nazi Occupation: Patriotic Memory and National Recovery in Western Europe, 1945-1965 (Studies in the Social & Cultural History of Modern ... and Cultural History of Modern Warfare) by Pieter Lagrou
Buy new: £66.50 / Used from: £47.50 Trying to use the past to create positive images- with a comparative angle.
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 | Vichy's Afterlife: History and Counterhistory in Postwar France by Richard J. Golsan
Buy new: £22.79 / Used from: £17.54 Superb study of Vichy's 'after-life'.
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 | The Papon Affair: Memory and Justice on Trial
Buy new: £21.84 / Used from: £14.12 The complexities of bringing an old man to trial for war-time actions.
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 | Vichy: An Ever-Present Past (Contemporary French Culture & Society) by Eric Conan
Buy used from: £54.56 Important for understanding memory of Vichy.
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 | The Vichy Syndrome: History and Memory in France Since 1944 by H Rousso
Buy new: £18.77 / Used from: £11.00 A must for understanding the effect Vichy had on the post-war world.
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