Under Occupation

Under Occupation
Title Under Occupation PDF eBook
Author Alan Furst
Publisher Random House Trade Paperbacks
Pages 226
Release 2020-06-02
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0399592318

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From “America’s preeminent spy novelist” (The New York Times) comes a fast-paced, mesmerizing thriller of the French resistance fighters working secretly and bravely to defeat Hitler. Occupied Paris, 1942. Just before he dies, a man being chased by the Gestapo hands off a strange-looking document to the unsuspecting novelist Paul Ricard. It looks like a blueprint of a part for a military weapon, one that might have important information for the Allied forces. Ricard realizes he must try to get the diagram into the hands of members of the resistance network. As Ricard finds himself drawn deeper and deeper into anti-Nazi efforts and increasingly dangerous espionage assignments, he travels to Germany and along the escape routes of underground resistance safe houses to spy on Nazi maneuvers. When he meets the mysterious and beautiful Leila, a professional spy, they begin to work together to get crucial information out of France and into the hands of the Allied forces in London.

The British Channel Islands Under German Occupation, 1940-1945

The British Channel Islands Under German Occupation, 1940-1945
Title The British Channel Islands Under German Occupation, 1940-1945 PDF eBook
Author Paul Sanders
Publisher Paul Sanders
Pages 310
Release 2005
Genre History
ISBN 0953885836

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The British Isles have only been successfully invaded and occupied once since 1066: the German occupation of the Channel Islands from 1940-1945. This book commemorates a defining period in the history of the islands and an important aspect of contemporary British history.

Soldiering Under Occupation

Soldiering Under Occupation
Title Soldiering Under Occupation PDF eBook
Author Erella Grassiani
Publisher Berghahn Books
Pages 168
Release 2013-07-01
Genre Political Science
ISBN 0857459570

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Often, violent behavior or harassment from a soldier is dismissed by the military as unacceptable acts by individuals termed, “rotten apples.” In this study, the author argues that this dismissal is unsatisfactory and that there is an urgent need to look at the (mis)behavior of soldiers from a structural point of view. When soldiers serve as an occupational force, they find themselves in a particular situation influenced by structural circumstances that heavily influence their behavior and moral decision-making. This study focuses on young Israeli men and their experiences as combat soldiers in the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), particularly those who served in the “Occupied Palestinian Territories” (OPT) during the “Al Aqsa Intifada,” which broke out in 2000. In describing the soldiers’ circumstances, especially focusing on space, the study shows how processes of numbing on different levels influence the (moral) behavior of these soldiers.

Paris Under the Occupation

Paris Under the Occupation
Title Paris Under the Occupation PDF eBook
Author Gilles Perrault
Publisher
Pages 216
Release 1989
Genre History
ISBN

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A photographic history of Paris and its inhabitants under German occupation.

Fashion Under the Occupation

Fashion Under the Occupation
Title Fashion Under the Occupation PDF eBook
Author Dominique Veillon
Publisher
Pages 236
Release 2002-10
Genre Design
ISBN

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During World War 2 French women, determined not to give way to the inevitable austerities, sought innovation wearing hats made out of blotting paper or newspapers & blouses made out of parachute silk. This is a history of French fashion during the war years.

Constitution Making Under Occupation

Constitution Making Under Occupation
Title Constitution Making Under Occupation PDF eBook
Author Andrew Arato
Publisher Columbia University Press
Pages 376
Release 2009
Genre History
ISBN 0231143028

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The attempt in 2004 to draft an interim constitution in Iraq and the effort to enact a permanent one in 2005 were unintended outcomes of the American occupation, which first sought to impose a constitution by its agents. This two-stage constitution-making paradigm, implemented in a wholly unplanned move by the Iraqis and their American sponsors, formed a kind of compromise between the populist-democratic project of Shi'ite clerics and America's external interference. As long as it was used in a coherent and legitimate way, the method held promise. Unfortunately, the logic of external imposition and political exclusion compromised the negotiations. Andrew Arato is the first person to record this historic process and analyze its special problems. He compares the drafting of the Iraqi constitution to similar, externally imposed constitutional revolutions by the United States, especially in Japan and Germany, and identifies the political missteps that contributed to problems of learning and legitimacy. Instead of claiming that the right model of constitution making would have maintained stability in Iraq, Arato focuses on the fragile opportunity for democratization that was strengthened only slightly by the methods used to draft a constitution. Arato contends that this event would have benefited greatly from an overall framework of internationalization, and he argues that a better set of guidelines (rather than the obsolete Hague and Geneva regulations) should be followed in the future. With access to an extensive body of literature, Arato highlights the difficulty of exporting democracy to a country that opposes all such foreign designs and fundamentally disagrees on matters of political identity.

When Paris Went Dark

When Paris Went Dark
Title When Paris Went Dark PDF eBook
Author Ronald C. Rosbottom
Publisher Little, Brown
Pages 480
Release 2014-08-05
Genre History
ISBN 031621745X

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The spellbinding and revealing chronicle of Nazi-occupied Paris On June 14, 1940, German tanks entered a silent and nearly deserted Paris. Eight days later, France accepted a humiliating defeat and foreign occupation. Subsequently, an eerie sense of normalcy settled over the City of Light. Many Parisians keenly adapted themselves to the situation-even allied themselves with their Nazi overlords. At the same time, amidst this darkening gloom of German ruthlessness, shortages, and curfews, a resistance arose. Parisians of all stripes-Jews, immigrants, adolescents, communists, rightists, cultural icons such as Colette, de Beauvoir, Camus and Sartre, as well as police officers, teachers, students, and store owners-rallied around a little known French military officer, Charles de Gaulle. WHEN PARIS WENT DARK evokes with stunning precision the detail of daily life in a city under occupation, and the brave people who fought against the darkness. Relying on a range of resources---memoirs, diaries, letters, archives, interviews, personal histories, flyers and posters, fiction, photographs, film and historical studies---Rosbottom has forged a groundbreaking book that will forever influence how we understand those dark years in the City of Light.