Life of the French under the Occupation by Henri Amouroux

THE LIFE OF THE FRENCH UNDER OCCUPATION

1940-1944. Four years under the Nazi boot. How did people live, how did they survive, how did they keep their dignity — or lose it?

Henri Amouroux delves into the daily life of ordinary French people under the Occupation: rationing, tickets, the black market, fake coffee and fake tobacco. But also Radio Londres secretly listened to, absent prisoners of war, the omnipresent Gestapo, and those men and women who chose to resist at the risk of their lives.

A striking portrait of France from within, between resourcefulness, resignation, collaboration, and silent courage. The reference work to understand what it meant to live under the Occupation.

KEY POINTS OF THIS BOOK

• Daily life under the Occupation: Rationing, tickets, and resourcefulness
• The black market and ersatz products: Fake coffee, fake tobacco, fake soap
• Radio Londres and the BBC: The clandestine listening to the English radio
• Prisoners of war: Millions of French captives in Germany
• The Gestapo and repression: Daily German terror
• The maquisards and the Resistance: Refusal in the French countryside

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