Joys and Sorrows of the Liberated People - Book 8 by Henri Amouroux

JOYS AND PAINS OF THE LIBERATED PEOPLE

Summer 1944. Paris is liberated. The bells ring. Tears flow — of joy, but also of pain.

For the liberation is not only triumphant. It is also a time of summary executions, women having their heads shaved, and settling of scores. And while Paris celebrates, Oradour-sur-Glane still mourns its dead. Henri Amouroux recounts the liberation in all its complexity — the heroes and the cowards, the joys and the injustices.

The eighth volume of The Great History of the French under Occupation, this book is a moving testimony to the conflicting emotions of liberation.

Joys and Pains of the Liberated People is the eighth volume in Henri Amouroux’s series.

1944: LIBERATION BETWEEN JOY AND TRAGEDY

This essential work explores:

• The liberation of Paris: The uprising, De Gaulle’s march, the street fighting
• The landing in Provence: The liberation of southern France
• The FFI and Leclerc’s army: The fighters of the liberation
• Summary executions: The violence of the wild purge
• The massacres of Tulle and Oradour-sur-Glane: Nazi barbarity in its final throes
• Conflicting emotions: Joy, revenge, relief, and mourning intertwined

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