Description
For sale: a Rare and Exceptional First hardcover edition, first printing of Fighters in the Shadows: A New History of the French Resistance by Lucinda Schroeder. First Edition unstated, 2015 Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press. First Printing stated.
The book is in Near Fine condition with clean, bright boards, strong title ink on a straight spine, tight binding, no spine tilt, rolled spine ends, mild edge wear, and two bumped corners. The interior of the book is in Fine condition with no marks, inscriptions, or other signs of ownership. The end papers and the interior pages are clean and bright.
The first state dust jacket is in Near Fine condition with mild edge wear and the price on the front flap. Looks great in a new archival wrap.
As Fighters in the Shadows makes clear, French resistance was part of a Europe-wide struggle against fascism, carried out by an extraordinarily diverse group: not only French men and women but Spanish Republicans, Italian anti-fascists, French and foreign Jews, British and American agents, and even German opponents of Hitler. In France, resistance skirted the edge of civil war between right and left, pitting non-communists who wanted to drive out the Germans and eliminate the Vichy regime while avoiding social revolution at all costs against communist advocates of national insurrection. In French colonial Africa and the Near East, battle was joined between de Gaulle’s Free French and forces loyal to Vichy before they combined to liberate France.
Ships promptly with secure packaging for a safe delivery.
