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Fighters in the Shadows: A New History of the French Resistance, by Robert Gildea

Review: Robert Gildea believes France downplayed the extent of its collaboration with Nazi Germany to help it cope with the trauma of defeat and occupation. His vivid, convincing new account focuses on the groups that did resist Hitler: communists, republicans, anti-fascists and, above all, women

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