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The French Resistance and its Legacy by Rod Kedward is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The French Resistance and its Legacy about?
"With personal and colourful reflections on tracking down resisters to the Nazi occupation of France, The French Resistance and its Legacy offers a captivating set of insights into the very substance of resistance, and the challenges it poses. The book uses a wealth of stories and testimonies to foreground the importance of imagination and inventiveness at the heart of resistance. The book insists on the primacy of context, not just the contexts of the creation and development of resistance but also those of historical debate at different moments since the war. The language in which we talk about resistance is shown to be enriched and challenged by Holocaust research, by the necessity of gender studies, and by the significance of place and time, of myth, legend and exile. Disguise and secrecy were necessities for those creating resistance in France and still have an alluring mystery, but this book is designed to open up that mystery, and not allow it to be used to keep resistance in the footnotes of military history. Rod Kedward argues with conviction that emergence from the shadows is a vital role of resistance research and, not least, of resistance testimony, whether written or s
Who reads The French Resistance and its Legacy?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Rod Kedward
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Bloomsbury Academic
- Published
- 2022
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781350260467
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Science, Humanities
