France

For books in my library on the Blitkrieg, Dunkirk, and the Fifth Column, click here.

• Burrin, Philippe, France Under the Germans, Collaboration and Compromise, New York: The New Press, 1993 (English translation 1996).

• Collins, Larry, and Lapierr, Dominique, Is Paris Burning?, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1965.

• Curtis, Michael, Verdict on Vichy, New York: Arcade Publishing, 2002.

• Humbert, Agnes, Résistance, Memoirs of Occupied France, London: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2008.

• Jackson, Julian, France, The Dark Years, 1940-1944, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.

• Kladstrup, Don & Petie, Wine and War: The French, The Nazis & the Battle for France’s Greatest Treasure, New York: Broadway Books, 2001.

• Krause, Peter, Bordeaux, Les Bombardements, 1940-1944, Montreuil-Bellay: Editions C.M.D., 1999.

• Littlejohn, David, The Patriotic Traitors, the History of Collaboration in German-Occupied Europe, 1940-45, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Co., 1972.

• Muller, Délie and Boscher, Jean-Yves, Bordeaux, Millau: Editions Grand Sud, 2003.  (Glossy tourist book on Bordeaux but full of info.)

• Ousby, Ian, Occupation, the Ordeal of France, 1940-1944, New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997.

• Paxton, Robert O., VichyFrance, Old Guard and New Order, New York: Columbia University Press, 1972.

• Peschanski, Denis, et al., Collaboration and Resistance Images of Life in Vichy France, 1940-1944, NY: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2000.

• Pryce-Jones, David, Paris in the Third Reich, A History of the German Occupation, 1940-1944, New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1981.

• Schoenbrun, David, Soldiers of the Night, The Story of the French Resistance, New York: E.P. Dutton, 1980.

• Shirer, William L., The Collapse of the Third Republic, An Inquiry into the Fall of of France in 1940, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1969.

• Silver, Eric, The Book of the Just, the Unsung Heroes Who Rescued Jews from Hitler, New York: Grove Press, 1992.  (Includes the story of the Portuguese Consul in Bordeaux.)

• Steinberg, Lucien, Not as a Lamb, The Jews against Hitler, Farnborough, Hants, England: Saxon House, 1974.

• Sweets, John F., Choices in VichyFrance, the French Under Nazi Occupation, New York, Oxford University Press, 1986.

• Walter, Gérard, Paris Under the Occupation, New York: Orion Press, 1960.

• Zuccotti, Susan, The Holocaust, the French, and the Jews, New York: BasicBooks, 1993.