This book is the first comprehensive survey of resistance movements
in Western Europe in World War II. Until now, most work on
resistance has centred either on espionage networks, partisans and
their external links, or on comparisons between national movements
and theories of resistance. This book fills a major gap in the
existing literature by providing an analysis of individual national
historiographies on resistance, the debates they have engendered
and their relationship to more general discussions of the
occupation and postwar reconstruction of the countries concerned.
Explaining the context, underlying motivations and development of
resistance, contributors analyze the variety of movements and
organizations as well as the extent of individual acts against the
occupying power within individual states. While charting the growth
of resistance activity as the war turned against the Axis, this
book will also deal with the roles of specific groups and the
theories which have been put forward to explain their behaviour.
This includes patterns of Jewish resistance and the participation
of women in what has largely been considered a male sphere. The
conclusion then provides a comparative synthesis, and relates the
work of the contributors to existing theories on the subject as a
whole.This book will not only be core reading on courses on the
social or military history of World War II but also, more
generally, all courses covering the social and political history of
Western European states in the twentieth century.
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