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Author: Philip Nord (Princeton University, New Jersey)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 16.00cm
, Height: 2.60cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.910kg
ISBN: 9781108478908
ISBN 10: 1108478905
Pages: 480
Publication Date: 03 December 2020
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
'American historians of France strike again, as Philip Nord has powerfully unsettled our history. His book explains the evolving memories of resistance heroes and martyrs and victims of the Holocaust with unmatched political, intellectual, cultural and artistic subtlety.' Annette Becker, author of Messengers of Disaster: Raphael Lemkin, Jan Karski and Genocides 'After Auschwitz, French survivors wrote poetry - and they staged plays, published memoirs, and built monuments - hoping to awaken minds and consign fascist barbarism to the past. In this riveting work, Nord brings their desperate efforts to life, and he does so with a moral urgency that is rare in any writing, prose or poetry.' John Connelly, author of From Enemy to Brother: The Revolution in Catholic Teaching on the Jews, 1933-1965 'A fascinating and sensitive exploration of France's memory wars over the wartime deportation of resisters and Jews, in which the resistance legend ultimately lost out to the Holocaust. New angles and new voices are constantly thrown up. A masterly work by a historian at the top of his game.' Robert Gildea, author of Fighters in the Shadows: A New History of the French Resistance 'The Germans forcibly deported about 160,000 people from occupied France during 1940-1944. While nearly all the 76,000 Jews among them perished, about half the others survived the camps. Philip Nord takes a fresh and probing look at how the French later reckoned with this searing experience.' Robert O. Paxton, author of Vichy France: Old Guard and New Order, 1940-1944 'Philip Nord offers a fascinating account of the diverse ways France's wartime deportations have been remembered. For the first time, memoirs by Jews, Communists, Resistance figures and Holocaust survivors are considered together in an analysis that sheds new light on the polyphonic voices battling to recover history.' Claire Zalc, author of Denaturalized: How Thousands Lost Their Citizenship and Lives in Vichy France
Author Information
Philip Nord is Rosengarten Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at Princeton University. His publications include France 1940: Defending the Republic (2015) and France's New Deal: From the Thirties to the Postwar Era (2010).
