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

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.