Robert Gildea, specialist in French and European history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, will be discussing his book Fighters in the Shadows. A new history of the French Resistance, in a lecture followed by a Q&A session, in French.

The struggle of the French Resistance against German occupation during World War II has reached mythical status and has been of great importance in shaping modern French identity. Gildea revisits first-hand accounts in this exploration of the resistance fighters, what drove them, and their place in the fight against facism.

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