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"Vichy regime" as a book category covers works—both nonfiction and fiction—centered on France under Marshal Philippe Pétain’s government (1940–1944) during the German occupation. It includes political and military histories of collaboration and occupation, biographies of key figures (Pétain, Pierre Laval, officials, and resisters), legal and institutional studies of the Révolution nationale and its authoritarian policies, and examinations of anti‑Jewish laws, deportations, repression and purges. The category also embraces social and cultural histories of everyday life, propaganda, memory and postwar reckoning, memoirs and oral histories, as well as historical novels, films, and literary responses that explore moral ambiguity, complicity and resistance. Scholarly debate, archival research, testimony, and representations in memory studies all feature prominently, making the label useful for readers seeking in-depth analysis or narrative portrayals of France’s wartime experience and its lasting legacies.
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1. The Long Holiday by Francis Ambrière
A vivid, panoramic account of French soldiers held as prisoners of war during World War II, tracing the five-year ordeal of captivity in German camps—its monotony and improvisations, the small economies, cultural life, escapes and acts of solidarity, as well as the moral dilemmas and tensions that arose—and the slow, uncertain process of returning to civilian life, showing how ordinary men endured, adapted and preserved dignity amid deprivation and upheaval.
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