Patrick Marnham

Liberating Marianne

In Fighters in the Shadows, Robert Gildea dares to suggest that the struggle in France against the German Occupation — so central to French identity — was too disparate even to be called ‘the French Resistance’

issue 29 August 2015

  • Fighters in the Shadows: A New History of the French Resistance

    Robert Gildea

    Faber, pp. 593

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