War and Liberation in France Living with the Liberation

by Footitt, Hilary

• ISBN13: 9781403902849
• ISBN10: 1403902844
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-06-12
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This book, coinciding with the sixtieth anniversary of the Liberation of France, takes a unique approach to the events of 1944, by seeing them as shared experiences which brought ordinary Anglo-Americans and French people into contact with each other in a variety of different communities. The book looks at the Liberation through 5 case-studies: Normandy, Cherbourg, Provence, the Pyrbliognblioges-Orientales and Reims, and uses the words of participants at the time to describe the developing relationship between Liberators and Liberated.

Author Biography

Hilary Footitt is Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Stirling.

Table of Contents

List of Maps	vi
List of Figures	vii
Acknowledgements	ix
List of Abbreviations	x
Introduction	1	(9)
1 Welcoming the Liberators	10	(27)
2 Liberation on the Move: Normandy	37	(29)
3 Meeting Private Ryan: Cherbourg	66	(29)
4 The politics of disappointment: Liberation in the South	95	(27)
5 Removing Inflammable Material: The Pyrénées-Orientales	122	(25)
6 The Long Goodbye: Reims	147	(28)
7 Liberated and Liberators	175	(18)
Notes	193	(20)
Bibliography	213	(4)
Index	217