The French in Love and War by Charles Rearick

The French in Love and War by Charles Rearick

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From the bloodbaths of World War I to the military defeat and Nazi occupation of World War II, this text shows how the citizens of France discovered ways to cope. It explains how the nation found reassurance and relief through songs, films and images of ordinary people.

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The French in Love and War by Charles Rearick

From the bloodbaths of World War I to the military defeat and Nazi occupation of World War II, this text shows how the citizens of France discovered ways to cope. It explains how the nation found reassurance and relief through songs, films and images of ordinary people.
Charles Rearick is the author of Beyond the Enlightenment: Historians and Folklore in Nineteenth-Century France (1974), Pleasures of the Belle Epoque: Entertainment and Festivity in Turn-of-the-Century France (1985), and The French in Love and War: Popular Culture in the Era of the World Wars (1997). He is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a frequent visitor to Paris.
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ISBN 13 9780300064339
ISBN 10 0300064330
Title The French in Love and War
Author Charles Rearick
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Yale University Press
Year published 1997-06-25
Number of pages 330
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