France: 1940-1955
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Few nations endured the twentieth century's upheavals as violently and viscerally as France, and Alexander Werth's France: 1940-1955 stands as one of the most authoritative eyewitness accounts of that turbulent era. Werth, a seasoned journalist and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Manchester, chronicles the full arc of France's ordeal — from the catastrophic fall of 1940, through the dark years of Nazi occupation, the fraught Liberation, and into the fractious postwar republic that struggled to rebuild its identity amid colonial wars and bitter political divisions. Written with the immediacy of a correspondent who witnessed many of these events firsthand, the narrative carries an urgency and intimacy rarely found in purely academic histories. Werth's prose blends rigorous reportage with sharp political insight, illuminating the fault lines of class, collaboration, and resistance that defined French society for a generation. The book carries a foreword by C. D. H. Cole and a personal letter from Prime Minister Pierre Mendès France, lending it extraordinary institutional weight. A landmark work of mid-century historical journalism, France: 1940-1955 forces the reader to confront an uncomfortable question: how does a great civilisation reconstitute itself after being brought to its knees?
Author: Alexander Werth
Format: Hardback
Published: 1957, Readers Union / Robert Hale
Genre: European history
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Few nations endured the twentieth century's upheavals as violently and viscerally as France, and Alexander Werth's France: 1940-1955 stands as one of the most authoritative eyewitness accounts of that turbulent era. Werth, a seasoned journalist and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Manchester, chronicles the full arc of France's ordeal — from the catastrophic fall of 1940, through the dark years of Nazi occupation, the fraught Liberation, and into the fractious postwar republic that struggled to rebuild its identity amid colonial wars and bitter political divisions. Written with the immediacy of a correspondent who witnessed many of these events firsthand, the narrative carries an urgency and intimacy rarely found in purely academic histories. Werth's prose blends rigorous reportage with sharp political insight, illuminating the fault lines of class, collaboration, and resistance that defined French society for a generation. The book carries a foreword by C. D. H. Cole and a personal letter from Prime Minister Pierre Mendès France, lending it extraordinary institutional weight. A landmark work of mid-century historical journalism, France: 1940-1955 forces the reader to confront an uncomfortable question: how does a great civilisation reconstitute itself after being brought to its knees?