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- When Men Fell from the Sky
- Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
- When Men Fell from the Sky
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Maps
- Charts
- Numerical Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Blitz-Invasion in France, or Resistance Crushed
- 1 Finding the Volunteers of the Year 40
- 2 The Repression of the Republic’s “Francs-Tireurs”
- Part II “Imminent Invasion!”
- Part III The Origins of the Resistance
- Part IV Lynching in Germany, 1943–1945
- Appendix Bombardments and On-the-Ground Responses: Maps and Numerical Comparisons
- Archival Sources
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
1 - Finding the Volunteers of the Year 40
from Part I - Blitz-Invasion in France, or Resistance Crushed
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 March 2023
- When Men Fell from the Sky
- Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
- When Men Fell from the Sky
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Maps
- Charts
- Numerical Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Blitz-Invasion in France, or Resistance Crushed
- 1 Finding the Volunteers of the Year 40
- 2 The Repression of the Republic’s “Francs-Tireurs”
- Part II “Imminent Invasion!”
- Part III The Origins of the Resistance
- Part IV Lynching in Germany, 1943–1945
- Appendix Bombardments and On-the-Ground Responses: Maps and Numerical Comparisons
- Archival Sources
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
With a few famous exceptions, no history has been written of the fighting soldiers and civilians of May–June 1940. Yet resistance – whether it be the military resistance of Colonel de Gaulle, the resistance of the administration or the resistance to torture with which Jean Moulin opposed the invader – required an infrastructure and the support of troops, civil servants and citizens. The memory of these pockets of resistance has since been engulfed by the fact of defeat, Nazi occupation and the Vichy regime to such an extent that it has seriously skewed the history of the “débâcle,” understood as comprising both exodus and defeat. Missing from this portrait is any appreciation of the readiness to fight, whether patriotic or/and republican.
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- When Men Fell from the SkyCivilians and Downed Airmen in Second World War Europe, pp. 23 - 38Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023