{"product_id":"choices-in-vichy-france-the-french-under-nazi-occupation-9780195037517","title":"Choices in Vichy France: The French Under Nazi Occupation","description":"\u003cp\u003eFilms like The Sorrow and the Pity and Lacombe Lucien  as well as recent scholarship  have replaced the old Gaullist myth of Nazi-occupied France and \"a nation of resisters\" with a new myth of \"a nation of collaborators.\" John Sweetss provocative assessment challenges both stereotypes.  From evidence gathered at Clermont-Ferrand  the largest town near Vichy  the Occupation capitol  Sweets found the French far less devoted to Petain than some have argued  and far more supportive of de Gaulle than has been suspected. The New Order was emphatically rejected by most of the French  he concludes  and the numbers involved in the Resistance were larger than has been recognized by previous accounts.  Choices in Vichy France is a compelling work of social history. Drawing on extensive archival research  interviews  and private correspondence  Sweets reconstructs the experiences of the individual men and women in Clermont-Ferrand to understand the dilemmas that Occupation set before them. Sweets found that everything was made difficult and complex by the Occupation; few decisions were simple and many had potentially serious consequences. He concludes that our stereotyped notions of \"resistance\" and \"collaboration\" are inadequate to describe the reality of peoples behavior under the extreme circumstances of war and occupation.  About the Author:  John F. Sweets is Professor of History at the University of Kansas at Lawrence and the author of The Politics of Resistance in France.  An important revisionist study of the German occupation of France  BLOverturns stereotypes about \"collaboration\" and \"resistance\"  BL\"His research is exemplary...clearly and forcefully written.\"--Robert O. Paxton\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45651759956021,"sku":"ByrdShop_0195037510","price":131.61,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780195037517.jpg?v=1781839846","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/choices-in-vichy-france-the-french-under-nazi-occupation-9780195037517","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}