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  • Living with the Enemy

    German Occupation, Collaboration and Justice in the Western Pyrenees, 1940–1948

    by Sandra Ott ...
    In post-liberation France, the French courts judged the cases of more than one hundred thousand people accused of aiding and abetting the enemy during the Second World War. In this fascinating book, Sandra Ott uncovers the hidden history of collaboration in the Pyrenean borderlands of the Basques and the Béarnais in southwestern France through nine stories of human folly, uncertainty, ambiguity, ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • The Circle of Mountains

    A Basque Shepherding Community

    by Sandra Ott ...
    Series series The Basque Series
    Ott provides an excellent ethnography of a French Basque agrarian and sheepherding community. The commune of Sainte-Engrâce extends along a mountain valley in the southeastern corner of Soule, one of the three Basque provences in France. In The Circle of Mountains, Sandra Ott examines the importance of cooperation and reciprocity as the essential basis for the main institutions within this ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • War, Judgment, and Memory in the Basque Borderlands, 1914-1945

    by Sandra Ott ...
    Series series The Basque Series
    During the first half of the twentieth century, the French Basque province of Xiberoa was a place of refuge, conflict, transit, exile and foreign occupation. At the Liberation of France in 1944, many Xiberoans confronted ongoing local divisiveness, rooted in the interwar years, and faced new conflicts arising from legal and civic judgments made during Vichy and German occupation. This book traces ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Negotiating the Nazi Occupation of France

    Gender, Power, and Memory

    Edited by Sandra Ott ...
    Series Book 19 - Conference Papers Series
    The French, the Basques, and the myriad of foreigners who lived in wartime France often developed clever strategies for negotiating the Nazi Occupation of 1940–1944. This sometimes entailed living in harmony and cooperating with the “enemy,” accommodating to the Germans’ presence, or rejecting them through various modes of resistance and hostility. People so often simply tried to survive the ... Read more

    $28.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Culture of Defeat

    On National Trauma, Mourning, and Recovery

    by Wolfgang Schivelbusch ...
    A fascinating look at history's losers—the myths they create to cope with defeat and the steps they take never to be vanquished again.History may be written by the victors, Wolfgang Schivelbusch argues in his brilliant and provocative book, but the losers often have the final word. Focusing on three seminal cases of modern warfare—the South after the Civil War, France in the wake of the Franco ... Read more

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  • A Train in Winter

    An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France

    by Caroline Moorehead ...
    Series Book 1 - The Resistance Quartet
    In January 1943, 230 women of the French Resistance were sent to the death camps by the Nazis who had invaded and occupied their country. This is their story, told in full for the first time—a searing and unforgettable chronicle of terror, courage, defiance, survival, and the power of friendship. Caroline Moorehead, a distinguished biographer, human rights journalist, and the author of Dancing to ... Read more

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  • A Small Town Near Auschwitz

    Ordinary Nazis and the Holocaust

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  • When Paris Went Dark

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    Living with Philosophy

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    The follow-up to THE MEANING OF THINGS which continues A.C. Grayling's philosophical journey through lifeThe most important question we can ask ourselves is: what kind of life is the best? This is the same as asking: How does one give meaning to one's life? How can one justify one's existence and make it worthwhile?How does one make experience valuable, and keep growing and learning in the process ... Read more

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