Ego-histories of France and the Second World War

Part I. Opening Reflections

1. Introduction: Ego-histories, France and the Second World War
Manuel Bragança, Fransiska Louwagie

2. Interview with Robert O. Paxton, on the Writing of History and Ego-history
Robert O. Paxton, Manuel Bragança, Fransiska Louwagie

Part II. Voices from France

3. Currents and Counter-Currents
Marc Dambre

4. Resisting Fragments
Laurent Douzou

5. On Chance and Necessity
Denis Peschanski

6. From a Foreign Country
Henry Rousso

Part III. Voices Across the Channel

7. In the Forests of the Night: England, France and the Writing of War
Margaret K. Atack

8. Searching for ‘Contact Zones’ in France’s War
Hilary Footitt

9. A Tale of Two Frances and a Curious Ancestor
Robert Gildea

10. Vichy, Kingdom of Shadows
Christopher Lloyd

11. Writers in Conflict
Peter Tame

Part IV. Voices from Far and Near

12. Good Fortune, Good Friends
Richard J. Golsan

13. The Other Side: Investigating the Collaborationists in World War II France
Bertram M. Gordon

14. When Faced with the Question
Colin Nettelbeck

15. Born in Paris…
Renée Poznanski

16. Reaching Vichy via Budapest: On Zigzags, Waves and Triangles in Intellectual Life
Susan R. Suleiman

Part V. Closing Reflections

17. Conclusion: Cross-Perspectives on Ego-history
Manuel Bragança, Fransiska Louwagie

Keywords: History, History of World War II and the Holocaust, History of France, Memory Studies, History of Modern Europe, World History, Global and Transnational History