Between 1940 and 1945, more than 100,000 airmen were shot down over
Europe, a few thousand of whom survived and avoided being arrested.
When Men Fell from the Sky is a comparative history of the
treatment of these airmen by civilians in France, Germany and
Britain. By studying the situation on the ground, Claire Andrieu
shows how these encounters reshaped societies at a local level. She
reveals how the fall of France in 1940 may have concealed an
insurrection nipped in the bud, that the 'People's War' in Britain
was not merely a myth, and that in Germany, the 'racial community
of the people' had in fact become a social reality with Allied
airmen increasingly subjected to lynching from 1943 onwards. By
considering why the treatment of these airmen contrasted so
strongly in these countries, Andrieu sheds new light on how
civilians reacted when confronted with the war 'at home'.
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