Long Silence

Civilian Life Under the German Occupation of Northern France

Helen McPhail (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2001
I.B. Tauris (Verlag)
9781860644795 (ISBN)

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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.

Helen McPhail has worked as a translator for the Historie de la Grande Guerre, Peronne.

Invasion; occupation; food; requisitions and regulations; secrets; "my girl guides"; "the will of the German authority"; liberation; rebuilding. Appendix: industrial and agricultural production lost through German occupation; agricultural losses; the legacy of war; the cost of reparation.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	16.2.2001
Zusatzinfo	bibliography, index
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-13	9781860644795 / 9781860644795
Zustand	Neuware