Settling of Accounts - Book 9 by Henri Amouroux

Settling of Accounts is the ninth volume of the monumental series The Great History of the French under the Occupation by Henri Amouroux.

1944-1945: The purge and its violence

This essential work explores:

• The Liberation of France : Settling Scores After Four Years of Occupation
• The role of the British SOE : The Special Operations Executive in France
• The FTP and the Communist Party : The Francs-Tireurs et Partisans in the Liberation
• General de Gaulle : The restoration of state authority
• General Leclerc : The Liberation of Paris
• De Lattre de Tassigny : The French Campaign
• The Wild and Legal Purges : The Violence and the Trials
• Political tensions : Between the French Resistance and Free France

Henri Amouroux skillfully reveals the violence of the purges, the crucial role of the British SOE in organizing the Resistance, and the political tensions that marked the Liberation. This analysis is essential for understanding this complex period where the joy of freedom existed alongside settling of scores.

📚 Other volumes in the series:

• Book 1 :The People of Disaster - Phoney War and Debacle 1939-1940
• Book 2 : 40 Million Pétainists - 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 5 : Passions and Hatreds - Divided France 1942
• Book 6 : The Ruthless Civil War - 1943-1944
• Book 7 : A Spring of Death and Hope - D-Day 1944
• Book 8 : Joys and Sorrows of the Liberated People - Liberation 1944
• Book 10 : The Page Not Yet Turned - Post-War 1945
• Books 11 & 12 : Putting an End to Vichy - Trial and Memory

📖 Discover other works by Henri Amouroux:

• SOE versus Gestapo - The Prosper Network
• June 18, 1940 - General de Gaulle's appeal
• The Life of the French Under the Occupation

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