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The Hunt for Nazi Spies
Simon Kitson
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Description for The Hunt for Nazi Spies
Hardcover. From 1940 to 1942, French arrested many spies working for Germans and executed them despite the Vichy government's declared collaboration with the Third Reich. This book chronicles the Vichy regime's attempts to maintain sovereignty while supporting its Nazi occupiers. It also illuminates the complex agendas that characterized the collaboration. Translator(s): Tihanyi, Catherine. Num Pages: 208 pages, 2 maps. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLW; JPFQ; JPSH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 165 x 25. Weight in Grams: 506.
From 1940 to 1942, French secret agents arrested more than two thousand spies working for the Germans and executed several dozen of them - all despite the Vichy government's declared collaboration with the Third Reich. A previously untold chapter in the history of World War II, this duplicitous activity is the gripping subject of "The Hunt for Nazi Spies", a tautly narrated chronicle of the Vichy regime's attempts to maintain sovereignty while supporting its Nazi occupiers. Simon Kitson informs this remarkable story with findings from his investigation - the first by any historian - of thousands of Vichy documents seized ... Read more
From 1940 to 1942, French secret agents arrested more than two thousand spies working for the Germans and executed several dozen of them - all despite the Vichy government's declared collaboration with the Third Reich. A previously untold chapter in the history of World War II, this duplicitous activity is the gripping subject of "The Hunt for Nazi Spies", a tautly narrated chronicle of the Vichy regime's attempts to maintain sovereignty while supporting its Nazi occupiers. Simon Kitson informs this remarkable story with findings from his investigation - the first by any historian - of thousands of Vichy documents seized ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226438931
SKU
V9780226438931
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About Simon Kitson
Simon Kitson is a senior lecturer in French studies at the University of Birmingham. He is the author of Experiencing Occupation in Western Europe, 1940-45. Catherine Tihanyi is a translator and research associate at Western Washington University.
Reviews for The Hunt for Nazi Spies
"The pungent details give Kitson's book a particular force: the incidents of head-shearing, the intimations of torture, the leakages back to the German authorities of the places where the spies were held, the contempt of the Vichy secret services for British agents.... All these elements make an English edition of the book a necessity." - Rod Kedward, Times Literary Supplement, ... Read more