Nicole Dombrowski Risser

France Under Fire

German Invasion, Civilian Flight and Family Survival During World War II

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A social, military and political history of the French refugee crisis tracing the impact of government responses upon civilian lives.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. August 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 150mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 662g
• ISBN-13: 9781107025325
• ISBN-10: 110702532X
• Artikelnr.: 35578135

Autorenporträt

Nicole Dombrowski Risser is Associate Professor of History at Towson University in Maryland. She is editor of Women and War in the Twentieth Century: Enlisted With or Without Consent (1998).

Inhaltsangabe

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.