Passions and Hatreds - Book 5 by Henri Amouroux

Passions and Hatreds is the fifth volume of the monumental series The Great History of the French under the Occupation by Henri Amouroux.

1942: The Year of All Turning Points

This essential work explores:

• The Allied landing in North Africa: Operation Torch and its consequences for France
• The invasion of the free zone: The Wehrmacht occupies all of France in November 1942
• The scuttling of the French fleet: The tragedy of Toulon and the sacrifice of the Navy
• The roundups of July and August 1942: The great roundup at the Vélodrome d'Hiver and the deportation of the Jews
• Drancy and Auschwitz: The Jewish Statute and the intensification of persecution
• Antisemitic passions: French collaboration in the Final Solution
• De Gaulle and the Allies: Tensions between Free France and the Anglo-Americans
• Stalingrad: The impact of the German defeat on French morale

Henri Amouroux finely reveals the passions and hatreds that tear France apart in 1942, a pivotal year when hope is reborn with the Allied victories while antisemitic terror reaches its peak. An essential analysis to understand this tragic period when France wavers between collaboration and resistance.

📚 Other volumes in the series:

• Book 1: The People of Disaster - Phoney War and collapse 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 4: The Awakened People - French Resistance 1943
• 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 - Post-war 1945
• Books 11 & 12: To Finish with Vichy - Trials and memory

📖 Also discover other works by Henri Amouroux:

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

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