Author: R. B. WolfePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : British
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
English Prisoners in France
Author: R. B. WolfeFrench Colonial Soldiers in German Captivity during World War II
Author: Raffael ScheckPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107056810
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
This book discusses the experience of French colonial prisoners of war captured by Nazi Germany during World War II. It illustrates that the colonial prisoners' contradictory experiences with French authorities, French civilians, and German guards led to clashes with a colonial administration eager to return to a discriminatory routine following the war.
They Shall Not Have Me
Author: Jean HelionPublisher: Skyhorse
ISBN: 1628724056
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
The French painter Jean Hélion’s unique and deeply moving account of his experiences in Nazi prisoner-of-war camps prefigures the even darker stories that would emerge from the concentration camps. This serious adventure tale begins with Hélion’s infantry platoon fleeing from the German army and warplanes as they advanced through France in the early days of the war. The soldiers chant as they march and run, “They shall not have me!” but are quickly captured and sent to hard labor. Writing in English in 1943, after his risky escape to freedom in the United States, Hélion vividly depicts the sights, sounds, and smells of the camps, and shrewdly sizes up both captors and captured. In the deep humanity, humor, and unsentimental intelligence of his observations, we can recognize the artist whose long career included friendships with the likes of Mondrian, Giacometti, and Balthus, and an important role in shaping modern art movements. Hélion’s picture of almost two years without his art is a self-portrait of the artist as a man.
The Russian Prisoner of War Among the French
Author: Moritz von KotzebuePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Hostages of Empire
Author: Sarah Ann FrankPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496207777
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Hostages of Empire is a social, cultural, and political history of the colonial prisoners of war.
Prisoners of War in France, from 1804 To 1814
Author: John Tregerthen ShortPublisher: Kessinger Publishing
ISBN: 9781104367947
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
The Russian Prisoner of War Among the French ... Edited ... by ... A. Von Kotzebue. Translated from the German
Author: Moritz von KOTZEBUEPrisoners of War in France from 1804 to 1814
Author: John Tregerthen ShortPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : France--History--1789-1848
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
A Prisoner of France (1809-1814)
Author: George Richard CassePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
We Will Wait
Author: Sarah FishmanPublisher:
ISBN: 9780300047745
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
Sarah Fishman's We Will Wait offers a view of the condition of women, and particularly the 800,000 wives of French prisoners of war, in Vichy France. It provides both personal accounts of several representative women and an analysis of the Vichy state. The paternalistic government assumed that women without husbands needed not only financial help, but also guidance, leadership, and moral protection - which exposed the hypocrisy, manipulation, and ineffectiveness of the regime.