War tourism Second World War France from defeat and occupation to the creation of heritage

Introduction : tourism, aesthetics, and war -- The emergence of France as a tourist icon in the Belle Époque -- Two 1940 locales as sites and symbols : the Maginot Line and the Compiègne railway car -- French tourism in their occupied country -- German tourism in occupied France 1940-1944 -- The lib...

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1. Verfasser: Gordon, Bertram M. (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Ithaca Cornell University Press 2018
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Zusammenfassung:Introduction : tourism, aesthetics, and war -- The emergence of France as a tourist icon in the Belle Époque -- Two 1940 locales as sites and symbols : the Maginot Line and the Compiègne railway car -- French tourism in their occupied country -- German tourism in occupied France 1940-1944 -- The liberation, 1944 : Normandy and Paris -- Tourism and the war : Free French and resistance sites : Vichy and its discontents -- Tourism, war, and memory in France since the war -- Conclusion : aftermath and the question of appropriate remembrance : French tourism and its self-images of the Second World War to the present
"This book addresses the linkages between tourism and war, focusing on tourism by German personnel and French civilians during the Second World War and on postwar memory tourism"--
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:x, 307 Seiten
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ISBN:9781501715877