Britain
and Vichy: The Dilemma of Anglo-French Relations, 1940-42
by R. T. Thomas
Hardcover from Palgrave Macmillan
1979
Castle
to Castle
by Ralph Manheim, Louis-Ferdinand D. Celine
An autobiographical novel by a French collaborator.
Paperback from Dalkey Archive Pr
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Charlotte
Gray: A Novel
by Sebastian Faulks
In his 1996 novel, Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks showed himself to be
a superb anatomist of men--and, just as importantly, women--at war. Indeed,
his depiction of trench combat during World War I was almost painfully
vivid: the equivalent of Wilfred Owen in prose, minus the lingering idealism.
Now the author shifts his focus to the next global conflict in Charlotte
Gray. This time the year is 1942, when "England was blacked out and afraid."
The 25-year-old heroine has just traveled down from Edinburgh to London,
hoping to make some contribution to the war effort. In short order she
falls in love with a British pilot, mourns his disappearance and apparent
death in France, and follows him across the Channel to assist the nascent
French Resistance.
On the face of it, these are the ingredients of a historical potboiler.
But Faulks is such a gifted storyteller that we seldom notice the threadbare
nature of the raw material. Instead, all but the most churlish reader will
be drawn into Charlotte's tribulations, which are not merely geopolitical
but amorous: "The last thing she needed was some uncontrolled romance.
She wanted to be helpful, she wanted to lead a serious life, not to lie
sobbing in her bed for a disembodied yearning. Still less did she wish
to see it embodied, with the complication and the fear that all that would
entail." (Note: Charlotte is that rare thing, a virginal heroine, at least
until page 61.) What's more, the author's evocation of Occupied France
is a triumph of grimy, monochromatic realism. Here the small triumphs of
Charlotte and her circle are expertly offset by the larger tragedies of
what we've come to call, with only middling accuracy, the Good War. --William
Davies
Hardcover from Random House
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The
Collapse of the Third Republic : An Inquiry into the Fall of France in
1940
by William L. Shirer
Paperback - 1082 pages (April )
Da Capo Pr; ISBN: 0306805626
Fashion
Under the Occupation
by Dominique Veillon, Miriam Kochan
Paperback from Berg Pub Ltd
For
Freedom: The Story of a French Spy
by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Hardcover from Delacorte Press
France
at War: Vichy and the Historians
by Sarah Fishman, Robert Zaretsky, Leonard V. Smith, Loannis Sinanoglou,
Laura Lee Downs, David Lake, Ioannis Sinanoglou
Hardcover from Berg Pub Ltd
France
the Dark Years, 1940-1944
by Julian Jackson
Hardcover from Oxford Press
France
Under the Germans : Collaboration and Compromise
by Philippe Burrin (Preface), Janet Lloyd (Translator)
Paperback - 530 pages
New Press; ISBN: 1565844394
The
Maginot Line
by J. E. Kaufmann, H. W. Kaufmann
Hardcover from Praeger Publishers
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Marianne
in Chains: Daily Life in the Heart of France During the German Occupation
by Robert Gildea
Hardcover from Metropolitan Books
Not
the Germans Alone : A Son's Search for the Truth of Vichy
by Isaac Levendel, Robert O. Paxton (Preface)
Hardcover - 280 pages
Northwestern Univ Pr; ISBN: 0810116634
Occupation
: The Ordeal of France 1940-1944
by Ian Ousby
Paperback - 384 pages 0 edition
Cooper Square Press; ISBN: 0815410433
Politics,
Society and Christianity in Vichy France (Berg French Studies)
by W. D. Halls, John E. Flower
Paperback from Berg Pub Ltd
A
Rescuer's Story: Pastor Pierre-Charles Toureille in Vichy France
by Tela Zasloff
Hardcover from University of Wisconsin Press
The
6th Lamentation
A Novel by William Brodrick
Book Description: Larkwood Priory, England: Father Anselm is
stopped by an old man. What, he is asked, should a man do when the world
has turned against him? Anselm's response: claim sanctuary. But the answer
sets off more trouble than he ever could have imagined when the man returns,
demanding the protection of the Church. He is Eduard Schwermann, a suspected
Nazi war criminal.
Agnes Aubret has unburdened a secret to her granddaughter Lucy. Fifty
years earlier, Agnes was in occupied Paris, risking her life to smuggle
Jewish children to safety-until her group was exposed by an SS officer:
Eduard Schwermann.
Not only has the Church granted Schwermann sanctuary before; in 1944
it helped him escape from France to begin a new life in Britain. As Anselm
attempts to find out why and as Lucy delves deeper into her grandmother's
past, their investigations dovetail to form a remarkable story.
William Brodrick makes a dazzling debut in this literary thriller where
two seemingly unconnected lives gradually, shockingly converge. Brodrick,
himself a former Augustinian friar, is a master of precision plotting,
morally complex characterization, and crisp historical re-creation. In
Father Anselm, Brodrick has crafted a unique and compelling hero. And The
6th Lamentation promises to be the literary thriller discovery of the season.
Hardcover from Viking Press
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Vichy
France
by Robert O. Paxton, Kenneth N. Waltz
Paperback from Columbia University Press
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Vichy:
An Ever-Present Past
by Eric Conan, Henry Rousso, Nathan Bracher
Hardcover from Dartmouth College
