Resistance and Liberation: France at War, 1942-1945

In Resistance and Liberation, Douglas Porch continues his epic history of France at war. Emerging from the debâcle of 1940, France faced the quandary of how to rebuild military power, protect the empire, and resuscitate its global influence. While Charles de Gaulle rejected the armistice and launched his offshore crusade to reclaim French honor within the Allied camp, defeatists at Vichy embraced cooperation with the victorious Axis. The book charts the emerging dynamics of la France libre and the Alliance, Vichy collaboration, and the swelling resistance to the Axis occupation. From the campaigns in Tunisia and Italy to Liberation, Douglas Porch traces how de Gaulle sought to forge a French army and prevent civil war. He captures the experiences of ordinary French men and women caught up in war and defeat, the choices they made, the trials they endured, and how this has shaped France's memory of those traumatic years.

在《抵抗與解放》一書中，道格拉斯·波奇繼續他關於法國戰爭的史詩般的歷史。從1940年的慘敗中崛起，法國面臨著如何重建軍事力量、保護帝國並恢復其全球影響力的困境。而查爾斯·戴高樂拒絕了停戰協議，發起了他的離岸遠征，以在同盟國陣營內重建法國的榮譽，而維希政權的投降主義者則與勝利的軸心國合作。該書描述了自由法國和同盟國的興起動態、維希合作以及對軸心國佔領的抵抗浪潮。從突尼斯和意大利的戰役到解放，道格拉斯·波奇追蹤了戴高樂如何試圖建立法國軍隊並防止內戰的努力。他捕捉到了被捲入戰爭和失敗中的普通法國男女的經歷，他們所做的選擇，所經歷的考驗，以及這如何塑造了法國對那些創傷性年代的記憶。