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When Paris Went Dark: The City of Light under German Occupation, 1940-1944.
Back Bay Books, 2015, in-8°, xxxiv-449-12 pp, 60 photos, illustrations et plans, chronologie, notes, biblio, index, broché, couv. illustrée, bon état. Texte en anglais
On June 14, 1940, German tanks entered a silent and nearly deserted Paris. Eight days later, France accepted a humiliating defeat and foreign occupation. Subsequently, an eerie sense of normalcy settled over the City of Light. Many Parisians keenly adapted themselves to the situation – even allied themselves with their Nazi overlords. At the same time, amidst this darkening gloom of German ruthlessness, deportations, shortages, and curfews, a resistance arose. Parisians of all stripes – Jews, immigrants, adolescents, communists, rightists, cultural icons such as Colette, de Beauvoir, Camus, and Sartre, as well as police officers, teachers, students, and store owners – rallied around a little-known French military officer, Charles de Gaulle. “When Paris Went Dark” evokes with stunning precision the detail of daily life in a city under occupation, and the brave people who fought against the darkness. Relying on a range of resources – memoirs, diaries, letters, archives, interviews, personal histories, flyers and posters, fiction, photographs, film and historical studies – Rosbottom has forged a groundbreaking book that will forever influence how we understand those dark years in the City of Light.
