{"product_id":"the-vichy-syndrome-9780674935396","title":"The Vichy Syndrome","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the Liberation purges to the Barbie trial, France has struggled with the memory of the Vichy experience: a memory of defeat, occupation, and repression. In this provocative study, Henry Rousso examines how this proud nation has dealt with \u003ci\u003eles années noires\u003c\/i\u003e. Specifically, he studies what the French have chosen to remember—and to conceal.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRousso has set out to provide not just another narrative of \u003ci\u003eles années noires\u003c\/i\u003e—the years of defeat, occupation, of the phantom ‘French State’ and the civil war—but a study of the way the Vichy episode has been perceived and perverted by the French ever since. The result is a brilliant and intemperate book that is also a tract for the times. * The Economist *\u003cbr\u003eSucceeds as a practical demonstration, for a particularly vivid case, of how to study a people grappling with a past. It is remarkable how few similar works there are… One understands a historian’s hesitation before the poorly documented and ill-defined wider popular memory as a subject. Rousso shows us, however, how dramatic and revealing this genre can be. -- Robert O. Paxton * New York Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003eThis is an original and thought-provoking work, a ‘must’ for anyone interested in the political and cultural psychology of post-war France. -- Nelly Wilson * Jewish Quarterly *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword by Stanley Hoffmann   Abbreviations      Introduction: The Neurosis   Part 1: EVOLUTION OF THE SYNDROME  1. Unfinished Mourning (1944-1954)  2. Repressions (1954-1971)  3. The Broken Mirror (1971-1974)  4. Obsession (after 1974): Jewish Memory  5. Obsession (after 1974): The World of Politics   Part 2: TRANSMISSION OF THE SYNDROME  6. Vectors of Memory  7. Diffuse Memory     Conclusion    Appendix 1: Chronology of Events   Appendix 2: French Films and World War II    Bibliography   Notes   Acknowledgments   Index","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403613970775,"sku":"9780674935396","price":28.76,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780674935396.jpg?v=1730483992","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-vichy-syndrome-9780674935396","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}