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Marianne in Chains: In Search of the German Occupation 1940-45 (Hardcover)

by Robert Gildea (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 539 pages
  • Publisher: Macmillan; illustrated edition edition (22 Mar 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0333782305
  • ISBN-13: 978-0333782309
  • Product Dimensions: 24.1 x 15.9 x 4.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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'A daring and completely original account of the German occupation of France. Full of the telling anecdote, written at a fast pace, Marianne in Chains is both readable and scholarly, provocative and convincing' Ruth Harris, author of Lourdes: Body and Spirit in the Secular Age"

Patrick Marnham, Sunday Telegraph
Gildea's revisionist account is the most convincing and lucid that I have read... a startlingly original view

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5.0 out of 5 stars Cogent, balanced and well-argued. Very good indeed., 1 May 2002
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Robert Gildea is an authority on the history of modern France, and this book builds on his breakthrough work in the provincial archives. However, where his earlier works were marked by a dense, academic style, here Gildea has found a more 'popular' voice, which puts 'Marianne' more in the orbit of works by scholars such as Anthony Beevor. Gildea argues for a middle ground between the opposing myths of collaboration and resistance in occupied France. This interpretation is a 'human' as well as a humane one, and derives from Gildea's intimate knowledge of his chosen region, primarily the Loire valley.
I recommend this book wholeheartedly to the specialist and the general reader alike.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A major contribution to a controversial debate, 1 May 2002
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To his family, Robert Gildea needs no introduction. The rest of the population may not have encountered this remarkable historian, whose acclaimed 'Past in French History' was one of the most original and striking contributions to the historiography of France to appear in the last decade. 'Marianne' is another stimulating read, challenging the reader at every turn to reconsider his initial prejudices about the behaviour of the French under the Vichy regime. Gildea's interpretation is a sort of intellectual 'third way', swallowing entirely neither the idea of total resistance nor that of total collaboration. It is not so much the originality of this line in itself, but the use that Gildea makes of hitherto unexplored diocesan and parochial archives, as well as oral testimony, that raises his third way above that of Blair. Gildea moves comfortably between the tragic - the shooting of captured resistance fighters, for instance - and the comic - such as the clandestine dances that continued despite the best efforts of the regime. Not so much a grand political narrative, as a human history.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Shortlisted for the British Academy Book Prize 2003, 12 Dec 2003
An original and deeply revealing look at the life in one region of France under the German occupation which gives a vivid picture of the ways in which people actually lived through the interval between occupation and liberation. Drawing on a variety of voices, personal recollections, and archival research, Gildea illuminates the range of behaviour - from quiet accommodation to inventive gestures of subversiveness as well as more dramatic forms of heroism and betrayal which ordinary people, functionaries and politicians adopted in order to survive and cope with increasingly extreme circumstances. This is a study which decodes official memories and myths and complicates the categories of 'resistance' and 'collaboration' through which French behaviour during that time has come to be understood. Marianne in Chains is a book which makes an important contribution to the contemporary intellectual debate by showing the very human choices available to people as they grappled a morally ambiguous and highly complex situation and by restoring the full complexity to our picture of a to a crucial historical period.
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