To put an end to Vichy - Book 11 by Henri Amouroux

To put an end to Vichy - Book 11 is the penultimate volume of the monumental series The Great History of the French under the Occupation by Henri Amouroux.

Memory and forgetting: France confronting its past

This essential work explores:

• The omissions of collective memory : What France has chosen to forget about 1940
• The Vichy regime : Collaboration with Nazi Germany
• Marshal Philippe Pétain : The French State and its legacy
• General de Gaulle : Free France and the Resistance
• The French conscience : Facing the Occupation and its choices
• The gray areas : The official story and its unspoken truths
• Compromises and resistances : The complexity of individual choices
• The Construction of National Memory : The Post-War Period and its Myths

Henri Amouroux skillfully reveals the omissions and unspoken truths that have shaped the French collective memory of the Occupation. This analysis is essential for understanding how France experienced and remembers this tragic period.

📚 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 9 : Settling of Accounts - Purge 1944-1945
• Book 10 : The Page Not Yet Turned - Post-War 1945
• Book 12 : Putting an End to Vichy - Book 12 - Conclusion of the series

📖 Discover other works by Henri Amouroux:

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

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