Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: OUP Oxford (5 Nov 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0199539324
ISBN-13: 978-0199539321
Format: PDF
Description: German policy in occupied France during the Second World War was in many ways a story of bitter internal conflict between the various German agencies in charge of the occupation. After the Fall provides a detailed analysis of the struggle between these different agencies, highlighting the significant differences in ideology, policy, and method between the army, the SS, and the diplomatic service, and the rivalries between them in their struggle for dominance. While the military government tried to exploit French industrial resources, the SS was...

Paperback: 272 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (February 28, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0199574669
ISBN-13: 978-0199574667
Format: PDF
Description: In Nine Wartime Lives, James Hinton uses diaries kept by nine 'ordinary' people in wartime Britain to re-evaluate the social history of the Second World War, and to reflect on the twentieth-century making of the modern self.
These diaries were written by some of the unusually self-reflective and public-spirited people who agreed to write intimate journals about their daily activity for the social research organization...

Paperback: 142 pages
Publisher: Ashgate; Har/Ele edition (November 1, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0754661121
ISBN-13: 978-0754661122
Format: PDF
Description: The focus of this study is the exciting period of French overseas exploration directly following the stagnation caused by the Wars of Religion. The book examines the early period of French involvement in Northeastern America through readings of key texts, principally travel and missionary accounts...