Format:
1 Online-Ressource (256 pages)
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illustrations
Edition:
First edition
Edition:
London Bloomsbury Publishing 2020 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Edition:
Also issued in print
ISBN:
9780755626137
Content:
Illustrations Chronology -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction Invasion Occupation Food Requisitions and Regulations Secrets 'My Girl Guides' 'The Will of the German Authority' Liberation Rebuilding -- Appendix 1 Industrial and Agricultural Production Lost through German Occupation -- Appendix 2 Agricultural Losses -- Appendix 3 The Legacy f War -- Appendix 4 The Cost of Reparation -- Bibliography -- Index.
Content:
"Based on original sources, including diaries, memoirs, family records and official documents, this is an account of how the rich agricultural and industrial areas of northern France were invaded, occupied and exploited between the summer of 1914 and the Armistice in November 1918. Factories were stripped, household furniture and fittings requisitioned, food supplies taken, and the population maltreated, malnourished and even taken to forced labour camps. Starvation loomed, and contact with the outside world vanished until Herbert Hoover set up his scheme of aid which kept the population alive during the war. The book describes how, in the struggle to survive, French civilians responded in ways which became familiar in World War II - escape networks, espionage, clandestine news-sheets, help for British soldiers trapped behind enemy lines - and all under the eyes of the occupying German army."--Bloomsbury Publishing
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Also issued in print.
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781784530532
Language:
English
DOI:
10.5040/9780755626137
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