Sharif Gemie is Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Glamorgan. He is the author of five books, and of over thirty articles in academic journals. He is currently researching Empire and the Second World War. Laure Humbert was a Research Assistant at the University of Glamorgan in 2007-10. She is currently a post-graduate at the University of Exeter, researching the administration of DPs in the French zone of occupied Germany.

The aim of this book is to reconsider the complex journeys undertaken by European refugees and the relationships between refugees and relief workers... The research...is impressive.

• Introduction / Part I - The Midnight of the Century / 1. The Retirada / 2. Evacuation, France 1939-40 / 3. Exodus: French Internal Refugees 1940 / 4. After the Exodus: Return, Expulsion and Escape / Part II - False Dawn / 5. Lessons Unlearnt: Wartime Debates and the Creation of UNRRA / 6. Into Darkest Germany / 7. In the Camps / 8. Other Paths: Returning to Nationhood / Conclusion.

Sharif Gemie is Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Glamorgan. He is the author of five books, and of over thirty articles in academic journals. He is currently researching Empire and the Second World War. Laure Humbert was a Research Assistant at the University of Glamorgan in 2007-10. She is currently a post-graduate at the University of Exeter, researching the administration of DPs in the French zone of occupied Germany.

The aim of this book is to reconsider the complex journeys undertaken by European refugees and the relationships between refugees and relief workers... The research...is impressive.

• Introduction / Part I - The Midnight of the Century / 1. The Retirada / 2. Evacuation, France 1939-40 / 3. Exodus: French Internal Refugees 1940 / 4. After the Exodus: Return, Expulsion and Escape / Part II - False Dawn / 5. Lessons Unlearnt: Wartime Debates and the Creation of UNRRA / 6. Into Darkest Germany / 7. In the Camps / 8. Other Paths: Returning to Nationhood / Conclusion.

Sharif Gemie is Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Glamorgan. He is the author of five books, and of over thirty articles in academic journals. He is currently researching Empire and the Second World War. Laure Humbert was a Research Assistant at the University of Glamorgan in 2007-10. She is currently a post-graduate at the University of Exeter, researching the administration of DPs in the French zone of occupied Germany.

The aim of this book is to reconsider the complex journeys undertaken by European refugees and the relationships between refugees and relief workers... The research...is impressive.

• Introduction / Part I - The Midnight of the Century / 1. The Retirada / 2. Evacuation, France 1939-40 / 3. Exodus: French Internal Refugees 1940 / 4. After the Exodus: Return, Expulsion and Escape / Part II - False Dawn / 5. Lessons Unlearnt: Wartime Debates and the Creation of UNRRA / 6. Into Darkest Germany / 7. In the Camps / 8. Other Paths: Returning to Nationhood / Conclusion.