The resistance in Western Europe, 1940-1945
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The resistance in Western Europe, 1940-1945
Columbia University Press, c2019
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Une histoire de la résistance en Europe occidentale 1940-1945
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In just three months in 1940, Denmark, Norway, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, and France fell to the Nazis. The German occupation of Western Europe had begun-but a brave few rose up in defiance. National resistance has long been celebrated in remembrances of World War II, depicted as making significant contributions to the defeat of Nazi Germany. However, the so-called army of shadows drew heavily on the support of London and Washington, a fact often forgotten in postwar Europe.
The Resistance in Western Europe, 1940-1945 is a sweeping analytical history of the underground anti-Nazi forces during World War II. Examining clandestine organizations in Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, and Italy, Olivier Wieviorka sheds new light on the factors that shaped the resistance and its place in the grand scheme of Anglo-American military strategy. While national actors played a leading role in fomenting resistance, British and American intelligence services and propaganda as well as financial, material, and logistical support were crucial to its activities and growth. Wieviorka illuminates the policies of governments in exile and resistance actors regarding cooperation with the British and Americans, pointing to the persistence of national self-interest and long-standing historical tensions. Drawing on a wide range of archival sources and bringing together the political, diplomatic, and military dimensions of the conflict, this book is the first account of the resistance on a continental scale and from a trans-European perspective.
Table of Contents
Foreword, by Robert O. Paxton
List of Maps
List of Abbreviations
Prelude: A Glowing Picture
1. Reinventing a Coalition
2. Set Europe Ablaze!
3. Internecine Struggles
4. Ententes Cordiales?
5. Legitimacy at Stake
6. The Dual Shock of 1941 and Its Consequences
7. Coming of Age
8. Developments
9. Compulsory Labor: An Opportunity or a Curse?
10. Mixed Results
11. Taking Up Arms
12. Propaganda
13. Cadres
14. Minor Maneuvers, Major Policies
15. Italian Complexities
16. Planning for Liberation
17. Plans and Instructions
18. Political Liberation
19. Action!
20. Peripheries
21. Order or Chaos?
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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