French and Germans, Germans and French : A Personal Interpretation of France under Two Occupations, 1914-1918/1940-1944

French and Germans, Germans and French : A Personal Interpretation of France under Two Occupations, 1914-1918/1940-1944
ISBN: 9780241351314
Publication Date: 17 September 2018

A magnificent account of Occupied France in both the First and Second World Wars. 'There had grown up a sort of intimacy between occupant and occupe . . . a peculiar blending of mutual loathing and mutual respect, a pas de deux'

An extraordinary history of French lives under occupation in the First and Second World Wars, this is an intimate, unforgettable meditation on the strange mixture of compromise and betrayal, collaboration and resistance that marks defeat, written by one of the greatest historians of France.

About the Author

Richard Cobb (1919-96) CBE was a British historian and essayist, and professor at the University of Oxford. He was the author of numerous influential works about the history of France, particularly the French Revolution.