The Resistance in Western Europe, 1940–1945

Olivier Wieviorka

Published by Columbia University Press 2020

The Resistance in Western Europe, 1940–1945

Olivier Wieviorka
Translated by: Jane Marie Todd

In the series European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism

https://doi.org/10.7312/wiev18996

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The Resistance in Western Europe is a sweeping analytical history of the underground anti-Nazi forces during World War II. Examining clandestine organizations in Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, and Italy, Olivier Wieviorka sheds new light on the factors that shaped the resistance and its place in Anglo-American military strategy.

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Wieviorka Olivier :

Olivier Wieviorka is a professor at École normale supérieure de Cachan and a well-regarded specialist on the Resistance and World War II. His previous books include Histoire du Debarquement (History of D-Day, Seuil, 2007), and Histoire de la Resistance (The French Resistance, Perrin, 2013), whose English translation (by Janet Todd) Belknap Press published in 2016.Olivier Wieviorka is professor of history at the École normale supérieure de Paris-Saclay. His books in English include The French Resistance (2016), also translated by Jane Marie Todd.

Robert O. Paxton is Mellon Professor Emeritus of Social Science at Columbia University. His books include Vichy France: Old Guard and New Order (Columbia, revised edition, 2001).

Jane Marie Todd has translated more than eighty-five books for university presses and art museums, including Claude Lévi-Strauss’s We Are All Cannibals (Columbia, 2016).

Reviews

From the foreword by Robert O. Paxton:
This book is as richly informative about the Allies as about the resistance. Wieviorka examines more fully than any previous work the complicated three-way negotiations among the Anglo-American authorities, the exiled governments of France, Holland, Belgium, and Norway in London, and the underground movements that together made it possible to plan and execute clandestine operations.

Clifford Rosenberg, City College of New York:
Wieviorka presents a clear-eyed view of the achievements and limitations of resistance efforts, moving beyond romanticized tales of valor and dismissive tales of military ineffectiveness. Above all, the book shows the vital role played first by the British and, later, American secret services—all too often forgotten in Europe since the war—in coordinating and directing the efforts of disparate movements across Western Europe.

Philip Nord, Princeton University:
Olivier Wieviorka treats the resistance in Western Europe as a multinational coalition. Anglo-Americans supplied arms and funding to resistance groups on the continent, and Resistance movements in turn aided in the Allied war effort. It was part tug-of-war, résistants striving to maintain autonomy, and part pas de deux, the two sides working together in a common effort that helped shape what Wieviorka calls an incipient “European consciousness.” This is a history on a grand scale commensurate with the epic character of the complex struggle it recounts.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Foreword Robert O. Paxton Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Maps Publicly Available Download PDF	xvii
Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	xix
Prelude: A Glowing Picture Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
CHAPTER I. Reinventing a Coalition Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
CHAPTER II. Set Europe Ablaze! Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
CHAPTER III. Internecine Struggles Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	48
CHAPTER IV. Ententes Cordiales? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	58
CHAPTER V. Legitimacy at Stake Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	72
CHAPTER VI. The Dual Shock of 1941 and Its Consequences Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
CHAPTER VII. Coming of Age Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
CHAPTER VIII. Developments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	126
CHAPTER IX. Compulsory Labor An Opportunity or a Curse? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	146
CHAPTER X. Mixed Results Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	164
CHAPTER XI. Taking Up Arms Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	178
CHAPTER XII. Propaganda Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	194
CHAPTER XIII. Cadres Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
CHAPTER XIV. Minor Maneuvers, Major Policies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	224
CHAPTER XV. Italian Complexities Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
CHAPTER XVI. Planning for Liberation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	256
CHAPTER XVII. Plans and Instructions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267
CHAPTER XVIII. Political Liberation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	287
CHAPTER XIX. Action! Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	315
CHAPTER XX. Peripheries Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	334
CHAPTER XXI. Order or Chaos? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	349
Epilogue Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	384
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	395
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	397
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	457
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	467

Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
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Published: October 21, 2019
ISBN: 9780231548649