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French children under the Allied bombs, 1940-45 : An oral history /
Children under the Allied bombs in France provides a unique perspective on the Allied bombing of France during the Second World War which killed around 57,000 French civilians. Using oral history as well as archival research, it provides an insight into children's wartime lives in which bombing...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
2016.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-title; Series information; Title page; Copyright information; Table of contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Children, bombing and France; Three towns under the bombs; Boulogne-Billancourt; Brest; Lille; The structure of this book; Notes; 1 Telling stories; History or memory?; History or oral history?; Individual or collective memory?; Children or adults?; A book about trauma?; Notes; Part I Expecting bombing; 2 Expecting war; Future war; Past war; Present war; Notes; 3 Preparing for bombs; National preparations.
- Local and domestic preparationsNotes; Part II Experiencing bombing; 4 Being bombed; Surprise, shelter, survival: practical responses to bombing; Son et lumiere: sensory responses to bombing; Hope, fear and despair: emotional responses to bombing; Notes; 5 An evolving response; Evolution of the threat; Vichy's response to the threat; Evolution of local responses; Family and personal responses; Notes; 6 In the aftermath; Local destruction: scale and confrontation; Finding home and family; Encounters with death; Rescue and clearance in the aftermath; Notes; 7 The consequences of bombing.
- Disruptions to daily lifeSinistres; Refugees; Child evacuees: policy; Child evacuees: experience; Notes; Part III Explaining bombing; 8 Explaining bombing to the public; Anti-Allied propaganda; Pro-Allied propaganda; Public opinion, propaganda and bombing; Notes; 9 Explaining bombing to children; Propaganda for children; Explaining to children: extent of knowledge; Notes; 10 Friends, enemies and the wider war; The Allies: friends?; The Germans: enemies?; Bombing and the wider war; Notes; Evaluating bombing: a conclusion; Evaluating the impact of bombing on the individual.
- Evaluating impact beyond the individualBombing and memory in France; Notes; Appendix: biographical profiles; Interviewees; Writers; Bibliography; Interviews with the author; Written accounts given to the author; Archival sources; France: main; Archives municipales de Boulogne-Billancourt (AMBB); Archives municipales et communautaires de Brest (AMCB); Archives departementales du Nord (ADN); Archives municipales de Lille (AML); France: other; Archives departementales des Bouches-du-Rhône (ADBR); Archives departementales du Calvados (ADC); Archives departementales de la Creuse (ADCr).
- Archives departementales d'Ille-et-Vilaine (ADIV)Archives departementales de la Loire (ADL); Archives departementales de la Loire-Atlantique (ADLA); Archives departementales du Morbihan (ADM); Archives municipales de Marseille (AMM); Archives nationales de France, Paris (AN); United Kingdom; The National Archives of the United Kingdom (TNA); British Broadcasting Corporation Written Archives at Caversham (BBC WAC); Official documents; Printed memoirs, diaries and contemporary texts; Local magazines; Radio; Websites; Printed secondary works; Unpublished theses; Index.