Collaboration and Resistance: Images of Life in Vichy France 1940-1944

by Denis Peschanski, Jean-Pierre Azéma, Yves Durand

Three hundred black-and-white photographs and little-known documents--including posters, newspaper articles, and leaflets--accompany a vivid, close-up look at life in France during the German occupation during World War II, along with commentaries from eight distinguished French historians. History Bk Club.

Genres: History, France

7 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 2000

Reviews

[Wendy · Rating 4 out of 5]

With more than 400 images - photographs, posters, leaflets, newspapers - many from the Vichy information commissariat, plus historical commentary, this book sheds light on life in Vichy and occupied France. As the publisher writes: "No other book makes so vivid the players, the politics, and the settings of this important slice of history that still affects the soul and reason of modern-day France." More than that, the book provides a sobering case study of "the power of the image, its role as an ideological weapon" that is cause for reflection in our own propaganda-saturated time.