Traces of war : : interpreting ethics and trauma in twentieth-century French writing / / Colin Davis.
The legacy of the Second World War remains unsettled; no consensus has been achieved about its meaning and its lasting impact. This is pre-eminently the case in France, where the experience of defeat and occupation created the grounds for a deeply ambiguous mixture of resistance and collaboration, p...
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