Book description
Rod Kedward brings to life the great, and often terrible, dramas of
modern France ? the two cataclysmic wars, the Algerian disaster, the
student and worker revolt of 1968 ? but also explores the special worlds
of the workplace, immigration, minorities, the role of women, and the
politics of everyday life and collective memory. La Vie en Bleu is a
history of people and events that tells a multitude of stories, some
impressive, some shameful and many that starkly divide the French among
themselves. Rod Kedward is the author of two remarkable works on the
French Resistance, In Search of the Maquis and Resistance in Vichy
France as well as having written books on the Dreyfus Affair, fascism in
western Europe and anarchism. He taught for many years at the University
of Sussex, where he is now Emeritus Professor.
