★入圍英國最重要非小說獎2015年山謬強森獎（The Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction）初選
★知名戰地記者、暢銷冠軍作家Max Hastings盛情推薦！

沃爾夫森歷史獎（Wolfson History Prize）得主書寫法國二戰抵抗納粹運動的重要新史，描繪佔領時期政治宗教國籍背景各異人士的參與，重新檢視戰後的英雄主義神話，書寫深度及廣度前所未有！

二戰抵抗納粹的歷史已深植法國認同的核心，然而這事實上是一個建構神話；抵抗不單單是法國上下齊心一力將國家從納粹佔領中解救出來的奮戰，而是一個牽涉更為廣泛，充滿衝突與分裂的拉鋸。

作者Robert Gildea援引大量第一手資料，書信、日記、回憶錄與訪談，細膩譜寫出生動、真實具說服力的歷史，深度及廣度皆遠勝既有記載。考據資料涵蓋範圍之廣令人驚嘆，從法國男性女性的私人日記，來自各地的移民與流亡者，包括西班牙共和黨人、義大利反法西斯主義者、波蘭猶太人、德國反納粹者，還有拯救被迫害猶太人的基督教徒、北部礦區的共產黨人、法屬北非的前維琪政府的支持者，跳傘潛入境的英美情報員等。

當多數人為飢寒交迫與恐懼所麻痺時，這些人為何選擇加入反抗運動？他們是如何匯聚起來，透過秘密小團體運作，如何為自己創造新身分，承受遭到逮捕、刑求與遣送的磨難，而在迎來自由的喜悅後，為何他們卻感到困惑、沮喪且失望？

這段歷史的另一股重要面向是，法國內部反抗運動與流亡倫敦的戴高樂政府之間存在著漫長的緊張關係，因戴高樂不惜任何代價亟欲避免法國出現社會革命。作者仔細檢視其中微妙的對峙，直到諾曼第登陸日與佔領結束。藉由回到第一手資料與當時人的證言，重新審視戰後法國抵抗神話的建構與作用，譜寫出一段生動、緊扣人心的第二次世界大戰全新的歷史書寫。

Robert Gildea is Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford, and one of the world's most eminent historians of modern France. His Marianne in Chains: Daily Life in the Heart of France During the German Occupation won the Wolfson Prize for History in 2002. His last book, Children of the Revolution: The French 1799-1914, was hailed as "masterly" and "a triumph" on its publication in 2008.

“Fascinating book...vivid and convincing history...often moving and illuminating...perhaps, in this thrilling story of anti-fascist solidarity between Polish Jews, French communists, Spanish republicans and German and Italian (and even Irish) anti-fascists, we can see the seeds of a possible new European identity.”——愛爾蘭時報
“The French Resistance remains one of the great moral tests of the 20th century, raising essential and often troubling questions about how ordinary people behave and define themselves in extraordinarily demanding and dangerous circumstances. Read this fine book, and wonder anew where you might have fitted in the kaleidoscope of resistance, defiance, acquiescence and collaboration.”——泰晤士報
“...as authoritative an arbitrator of truth and falsehood as we are likely to get, and his depiction of the heroes and heroines of the resistance commands belief, and sometimes awe... He does more than any French writer has achieved to lift the deadweight of mythology oppressing the era.”——Max Hastings，星期日泰晤士報
There have been many excellent recent books, both in French and in English...on France during the resistance years. What Gildea has done is to step back and look and the wider picture, thereby providing a context for the individual acts of courage, which he celebrates in moving detail. He gives recognition to the widest range of participants, many of them little known, and to the categories who did not fit well into the postwar myth of heroism, and that is perhaps his most important contribution to the field. (Caroline Moorhead Guardian)