Olivier Wieviorka is professor of history at the École normale supérieure de Paris-Saclay. His books in English include The French Resistance (2016), also translated by Jane Marie Todd.Robert O. Paxton is Mellon Professor Emeritus of Social Science at Columbia University. His books include Vichy France: Old Guard and New Order (Columbia, revised edition, 2001).Jane Marie Todd (1957–2021) translated more than ninety books for university presses and art museums, including Claude Lévi-Strauss’s We Are All Cannibals (Columbia, 2016).

With a subject like this, where the stories are almost always saturated with romanticism, and tend to look at events in just one country, Wieviorka's transnational accounting provides a useful antidote.

• Foreword, by Robert O. PaxtonList of MapsList of AbbreviationsPrelude: A Glowing Picture1. Reinventing a Coalition2. Set Europe Ablaze!3. Internecine Struggles4. Ententes Cordiales?5. Legitimacy at Stake6. The Dual Shock of 1941 and Its Consequences7. Coming of Age8. Developments9. Compulsory Labor: An Opportunity or a Curse?10. Mixed Results11. Taking Up Arms12. Propaganda13. Cadres14. Minor Maneuvers, Major Policies15. Italian Complexities16. Planning for Liberation17. Plans and Instructions18. Political Liberation19. Action!20. Peripheries21. Order or Chaos?EpilogueAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

Olivier Wieviorka is professor of history at the École normale supérieure de Paris-Saclay. His books in English include The French Resistance (2016), also translated by Jane Marie Todd.Robert O. Paxton is Mellon Professor Emeritus of Social Science at Columbia University. His books include Vichy France: Old Guard and New Order (Columbia, revised edition, 2001).Jane Marie Todd (1957–2021) translated more than ninety books for university presses and art museums, including Claude Lévi-Strauss’s We Are All Cannibals (Columbia, 2016).

With a subject like this, where the stories are almost always saturated with romanticism, and tend to look at events in just one country, Wieviorka's transnational accounting provides a useful antidote.

• Foreword, by Robert O. PaxtonList of MapsList of AbbreviationsPrelude: A Glowing Picture1. Reinventing a Coalition2. Set Europe Ablaze!3. Internecine Struggles4. Ententes Cordiales?5. Legitimacy at Stake6. The Dual Shock of 1941 and Its Consequences7. Coming of Age8. Developments9. Compulsory Labor: An Opportunity or a Curse?10. Mixed Results11. Taking Up Arms12. Propaganda13. Cadres14. Minor Maneuvers, Major Policies15. Italian Complexities16. Planning for Liberation17. Plans and Instructions18. Political Liberation19. Action!20. Peripheries21. Order or Chaos?EpilogueAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex