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The French Resistance and its Legacy (Paperback)
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The French Resistance and its Legacy (Paperback)
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Loot Price R591
Discovery Miles 5 910
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With personal and colourful reflections on tracking down resisters
to the Nazi occupation of France, The French Resistance and its
Legacy offers a captivating set of insights into the very substance
of resistance, and the challenges it poses. The book uses a wealth
of stories and testimonies to foreground the importance of
imagination and inventiveness at the heart of resistance. The book
insists on the primacy of context, not just the contexts of the
creation and development of resistance but also those of historical
debate at different moments since the war. The language in which we
talk about resistance is shown to be enriched and challenged by
Holocaust research, by the necessity of gender studies, and by the
significance of place and time, of myth, legend and exile. Disguise
and secrecy were necessities for those creating resistance in
France and still have an alluring mystery, but this book is
designed to open up that mystery, and not allow it to be used to
keep resistance in the footnotes of military history. Rod Kedward
argues with conviction that emergence from the shadows is a vital
role of resistance research and, not least, of resistance
testimony, whether written or spoken. The scattered extracts from
the author's interviews to be found throughout are a pointer
towards specific personalities and circumstance at both the time of
resistance and the time of the testimony. Kedward does not
interrogate the importance of this time distinction. Instead he
implicitly suggests that there is an oral history to all events,
whether captured at the time or later, and this should be seen as
relevant to our talking and our understanding. The book as a whole
celebrates where history, literature, film and testimony interact,
to make talking about resistance both an art and a discovery. It
ends with a challenging conclusion that is of seminal importance
for the history of resistance in and beyond France, across both
time and place.
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