Settling of Accounts - Book 9 by Henri Amouroux

SETTLING SCORES

1944-1945. The war is almost over. But for some French people, it is only just beginning.

The purge. The word covers very different realities: fair trials and arbitrary executions, guilty condemned and innocent sacrificed. Henri Amouroux rigorously untangles the threads of this troubled period, where De Gaulle tries to restore the authority of the State in the face of unleashed passions.

The ninth volume of The Great History of the French under Occupation, this book is an essential analysis of a period often poorly known and misunderstood.

Settling Scores is the ninth volume in Henri Amouroux’s series.

1944-1945: THE PURGE AND ITS AMBIGUITIES

This essential work explores:

• The legal and wild purge: Official trials and summary executions
• The role of the SOE, the FTP, and the PCF: The political stakes of the purge
• De Gaulle and the restoration of the State: The priority of national unity
• The tensions between the internal Resistance and Free France: Two legitimacies in conflict
• The victims of the purge: Guilty, accomplices, and innocent mixed together
• The reconstruction of memory: How France begins to tell its war

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