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The Unfree French: Life Under the Occupation

Richard Vinen

In the summer of 1940, the French army was one of the largest and best in the world, confident of victory. In the space of a few nightmarish weeks all…

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The Long ‘68: Radical Protest and Its Enemies

Richard Vinen

The ‘long 68’ is a striking and original attempt, half a century on, to show how these events, which in some ways still seem so current, stemmed from histories and…

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Second City: Birmingham and the Forging of Modern Britain

Richard Vinen

Richard Vinen makes a compelling case for Birmingham as the overlooked heart of British history

For over a century, Birmingham has been the second largest town in England, and at…

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National Service: A Generation in Uniform 1945-1963

Richard Vinen

Winner of the Templer Medal and the Wolfson History Prize, this book attempt to get to grips with the reality of that extraordinary institution, which now seems as remote as…

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A History In Fragments: Europe in the Twentieth Century

Richard Vinen

The history of forces that shaped the lives of individual Europeans is the thrust of Richard Vinen’s survey of this century. It argues that there is no single history that…

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1968: Radical Protest and Its Enemies

Richard Vinen

Now in paperback, a major history of one of the seminal years in the postwar world, when rebellion and disaffection broke out on an extraordinary scale.

The year 1968 saw…

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Second City

Richard Vinen

Richard Vinen makes a compelling case for Birmingham as the overlooked heart of British history

For over a century, Birmingham has been the second largest town in England. In his…

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Bourgeois Politics in France, 1945-1951

Richard Vinen (King's College London)

A research study of the institutions defending French bourgeois interests during this period. Vinen presents French conservatism as a more subtle and dynamic force than has been previously appreciated, and…

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The Politics of French Business 1936-1945

Richard Vinen (Trinity College, Cambridge)

It has long been assumed that large-scale industry was one of the pillars of support for the Vichy regime. In particular it has been assumed that it used Vichy to…

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