Living with the Enemy: German Occupation, Collaboration and Justice in the Western Pyrenees, 1940–1948 - Couverture souple

Ott, Sandra

 
9781316630877: Living with the Enemy: German Occupation, Collaboration and Justice in the Western Pyrenees, 1940–1948
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ISBN 10 : 1316630870 ISBN 13 : 9781316630877
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2017

Synopsis

In post-liberation France, the French courts judged the cases of more than one hundred thousand people accused of aiding and abetting the enemy during the Second World War. In this fascinating book, Sandra Ott uncovers the hidden history of collaboration in the Pyrenean borderlands of the Basques and the Béarnais in southwestern France through nine stories of human folly, uncertainty, ambiguity, ambivalence, desire, vengeance, duplicity, greed, self-interest, opportunism and betrayal. Covering both the occupation and liberation periods, she reveals how the book's characters became involved with the occupiers for a variety of reasons, ranging from a desire to settle scores and to gain access to power, money and material rewards, to love, friendship, fear and desperation. These wartime lives and subsequent postwar reckonings provide us with a new lens through which to understand human behavior under the difficult conditions of occupation, and the subsequent search for retribution and justice.

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À propos de l'auteur

Sandra Ott is an Oxford-educated anthropologist, and she has done research in the Basque Country for forty years. Speaking Basque, French and Spanish, she acquired minor fame among artisan cheese-makers for the chapter on 'The cheese analogy of conception' in her first book The Circle of Mountains: A Basque Shepherding Community (1981). Other works include the ethnographic film The Basques of Santazi with Granada Television for 'Disappearing Worlds', and War, Judgment and Memory in the Basque Borderlands, 1914–1945 (2008).

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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
2017
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1316630870
ISBN 13 
9781316630877
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
382
Coordonnées du fabricant
Cambridge University Press
https://www.cambridge.org/

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ISBN 10 :  1107178207 ISBN 13 :  9781107178205
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2017
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