Awakened People - Book 4 by Henri Amouroux

The Awakened People is the fourth volume of the monumental series The Great History of the French under the Occupation by Henri Amouroux.

June 1940 - June 1941: From Defeat to Awakening

This essential work explores:

• The military collapse of June 1940: The French rout and the flight of civilians
• The appeal of June 18, 1940: De Gaulle on the BBC and the birth of Free France
• Marshal Pétain and the French State: The establishment of the Vichy regime
• The German-Soviet pact: The French Communist Party facing the Occupation
• Operation Barbarossa: The invasion of the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941
• The awakening of the Resistance: The French Communist Party entering the fight after the attack on the USSR
• The myth of the "Party of the Executed": The communist resistance and its martyrs
• London and the Third Reich: The international stakes of the war

Henri Amouroux reveals with subtlety how the French people, crushed by defeat, gradually awaken to resistance. An essential analysis to understand this pivotal year when France moves from collapse to hope, marked by the June 18 appeal and the turning point of June 22, 1941.

📚 The other volumes of the series:

• Book 1: The People of Disaster - Phoney War and rout 1939-1940
• Book 2: 40 million Pétain supporters - France under Vichy 1940-1941
• Book 3: The Good Days of the Collaborators - Collaboration 1941-1942
• Book 5: Passions and Hatreds - Divided France 1942
• Book 6: The Ruthless Civil War - 1943-1944
• Book 7: A Spring of Death and Hope - Landing 1944
• Book 8: Joys and Sorrows of the Freed People - Liberation 1944
• Book 9: Settling Scores - Purge 1944-1945
• Book 10: The Page Not Yet Turned - Postwar 1945
• Books 11 & 12: To Put an End to Vichy - Trials and memory

📖 Also discover other works by Henri Amouroux:

• June 18, 1940 - The appeal of General de Gaulle
• Pétain before Vichy - The Marshal of Verdun
• The Life of the French under the Occupation

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