The hunt for Nazi spies: fighting espionage in Vichy France
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Main Author: Kitson, Simon (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago University of Chicago Press ©2008
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Item Description:"Originally published as Vichy et la chasse aux espions nazis, ©2005 by Éditions"--Title page verso. - Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-208) and index
Preface to the English language edition -- Acknowledgments -- Glossary and abbreviations -- Chronoloyg of World War II France -- Introduction -- Organizing German espionage -- Becoming a spy -- The structures of French counterespionage -- Secret service ambiguities -- Everyday counterespionage -- The fate of the spies -- Understanding Vichy's policy -- Conclusion
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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xix, 218 pages)
ISBN:0226438953
9780226438955

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