Emmanuel Debruyne

1918: the guns fall silent at last. However, there is nothing evident about coming out of the war. Whilst some long for a return to normality, others hope for a new future. These different aspirations and the continuous traces of the conflict still present complicate the advent of a "post-war world" which has yet to be defined.

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Living through a military occupation also means living with the enemy. The contributions presented here examine this idea, in 1914-18 just as in 1939-45 or during the periods of 'leaving wars'; in France and Belgium just as in Poland, Central Africa, or Germany. Between dialogue and power struggles, occupiers and occupied alike adapted to a ...

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À la veille du 75e anniversaire du début de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, ce livre propose un nouveau regard sur la débâcle de mai-juin 1940. Les auteurs, chercheurs français et étrangers, adoptent une perspective originale : celle d´une histoire croisée et régionale, qui s´intéresse non seulement à l´Allemagne et à la France, mais aussi aux...

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