French Children Under the Allied Bombs, 1940-45: An Oral History

by Lindsey Dodd

Children under the Allied bombs in France provides a unique perspective on the Allied bombing of France during the Second World War which killed around 57,000 French civilians. Using oral history as well as archival research, it provides an insight into children's wartime lives in which bombing often featured prominently, even though it has slipped out of French collective memory. How prepared were the French for this aerial onslaught? What was it...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719097045
• ISBN13: 9780719097041
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"