Women and the Second World War in France, 1939-1948

This is the first book (in either English or French) to offer readers an overview of women's experience of the Second World War, the liberation, and its immediate aftermath in France. It examines women's every-day lives and the role they played in both collaboration and resistance. The author not only syntheses recent scholarship on the subject in French and English but she also draws on her own extensive research (including oral sources) in Toulouse, Paris, and West Brittany. An often moving account, this is a very important addition to French history and women's history literature.