The forgotten French / Nicholas Atkin.
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TextLanguage: English Publisher: Manchester : Manchester University Press, [2010]Copyright date: ©2003Description: 1 online resource (320 p.)Content type: - text
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- 9781526120663
- Exiles -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
- French -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Refugees -- France
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Refugees -- Great Britain
- HISTORY / Europe / General
- Dunkirk
- Franco-German armistice
- French servicemen
- General de Gaulle
- Pétain
- Second World War
- Vichy consular officials
- camps
- exiles
- refugees
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UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات Online Copy | نسخة إلكترونية | Link to resource | Not for loan | Open Access |
Front matter -- Contents -- List of figures and maps -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- 1 The context of exile -- 2 The misfortune of exile -- 3 The conflict of exile -- 4 The surveillance of exile -- 5 The tradition of exile -- 6 Conclusion -- Appendices -- Bibliography -- Index
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This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. It is widely assumed that the French in the British Isles during the Second World War were fully fledged supporters of General de Gaulle, and that, across the channel at least, the French were a 'nation of resisters'. This study reveals that most exiles were on British soil by chance rather than by design, and that many were not sure whether to stay. Overlooked by historians, who have concentrated on the 'Free French' of de Gaulle, these were the 'Forgotten French': refugees swept off the beaches of Dunkirk; servicemen held in camps after the Franco-German armistice; Vichy consular officials left to cater for their compatriots; and a sizeable colonist community based mainly in London. Drawing on little-known archival sources, this study examines the hopes and fears of those communities who were bitterly divided among themselves, some being attracted to Pétain as much as to de Gaulle.
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