France: the dark years, 1940-1944

Part I. Anticipations. The shadow of war: cultural anxieties and modern nightmares

Rethinking the republic: 1890-1934

Class war/civil war

The German problem

The Daladier moment: prelude to Vichy or republican revival?

The debacle

Part II. The regime: national revolution and collaberation. The national revolution

Collaboration

Collaborationism

Laval in power 1942-1943

Part III. Vichy, the Germans, and the French people. Propaganda, policing, and administration

Public opinion, Vichy, and the Germans

Intellectuals, artists, and entertainers

Reconstructing mankind

Vichy and the Jews

Part IV. The Resistance. The free French 1940-1942

The Resistance 1940-1942

De Gaulle and the Resistance 1942

Power struggles 1943

Resistance in society

Remaking France

Part V. Liberation and after. Towards Liberation: January to June 1944

Liberations

A new France?

Remembering the occupation.