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BIBLIOGRAPHY
The materials and passages in this website have been drawn largely from the following list of books, videos, and various articles as well as other sources. (Footnote was an afterthought, so they are incomplete.)
Books
[1] Cordier, Daniel Jean Moulin: La Républicque des catacombes (1999, Gallimard) - comprehensive book on Moulin and the French Resistance. (In French)
[2] Marnham, Patrick, Resistance and Betrayal (2000, Random House) - a highly speculative and polemic account of Moulin
[3] Paris, Erna, Unhealed Wounds (1985, Grove Press)
[4] Schoenbrun, David, Soldiers of the Night (1980, Meridian) - a comprehensive narrative account of the French Resistance. Highly recommended.
[5] Foot, M.R.D., SOE in France (1966, University Publications of America) - an account of British intelligence agency and its activities in France during the WWII.
[6] Foot, M.R.D., Six Faces of Courage (1978, Eyre Methuen)
[7] Frenay, Henri, The Night Will End (1976, McGraw-Hill) - Henri Frenay's memoir of his resistance works. Recommended.
[8] de Hoyos, Ladislas, Klaus Barbie (1984, McGraw-Hill)
[9] Murphy, BrendanThe Butcher of Lyons (1983, Empire Books)
[10] Morgan, Ted, An Uncertain Hour (1990, Arbor House)
[11] Moulin, Laure, Jean Moulin (1969, Presses de la cité) - In French
[12] Moulin, Jean, Premier Combat (1946) - In French
[13] Jackson, Julian, France The Dark Years 1940-1944 (2001, Oxford) - study of the period of Occupation. Highly recommended.
♦ Aubrac, Lucie Outwitting the Gestapo (1993, University of Nebraska
♦ Rousso, Henry The Vichy Syndrome: History and Memory in France Since 1944
(1994, Harvard)
Videos
[14] The Sorrow and the Pity (1972) - directed by Marcel Ophuls, a landmark documentary on the collaboration and resistance in France under Nazi occupation. Highly recommended. Available on DVD (Image)
[15] Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie (1988) - directed by Marcel Ophuls, a documentary on Klaus Barbie and controversies and moral ambiguities he raised in France, United States, Vatican, and South America. Highly recommended. Available on VHS (MGM/UA)
[16] Allies at War (2002) - a documentary on the hostile relationship among the leaders of three Western allies: de Gaulle, Churchill, and Roosevelt. Available on DVD (MPI)
♦ Open City (1945, Image) - directed by Roberto Rossellini, a classic film depicting Italian Resistance. Highly recommended. Available on DVD (Image)
♦ Night and Fog (1955) - directed by Alain Resnais, a classic documentary on concentration camps and Holocaust. Highly recommended. Available on DVD (Criterion)
♦ The Battle of Algiers (1965) - directed by Gillo Pontecorvo. Highly recommended. On VHS (Rhino)
♦ A Man Escaped (1956) - directed by Robert Bresson. Resistant André Devigny's escape from Montluc Prison. Highly recommended. On VHS (New Yorker)
Essays or articles
[17] How a French beauty betrayed Jean Moulin - The Telegraph; Sunday 13 June 1999; an article reporting Péan's theory that Lydie Bastien betrayed Moulin.
[18] America blamed for Resistance hero's capture - The Daily Telegraph; Wednesday, 18 November 1998; article on conspiracy theory that OSS mistakes led to the Caluire arrest.
[19] The Aubrac Controversy - History Today column by on the Aubrac affair and the problem of historians dealing with personal testimonies. Highly recommended.
[20] Fabulist Wife, Mysterious Husband
- The Spectator column by Douglas Johnson on the Aubrac affair from a different perspective from the History Today column. Highly recommended.
[21] After 4 Years, Trial of Barbie Nears - Washington Post article on the upcoming Klaus Barbie trial, which his laywer threatened to turn into the trial of the French Resistance.
[22] Encyclopedia Britannica
LINKS
On Moulin
♦ Jean Moulin Dossier - Foundation and Institute Charles de Gaulle website on Moulin. (Some of internal links are reproductions of webpages from this site that I have made in case the site goes offline.)
♦ Daniel Cordier on Moulin - A speech by Jean Moulin's former secretary in the underground offers a detailed account of Moulin's mission and its significance. Highly recommended.
♦ Henri Frenay on Moulin - Frenay speculates that Moulin was a crypto-communist, an excerpt from his memoir, The Night Will End. Highly recommended.
♦ Gaston Palewski on Moulin - The former chief secretary of de Gaulle defends the policy of cooperation with the the Communists. Recommended.
♦ André Malraux' speech on Moulin - made on the occasion of transfer of Moulin's ashes to the Panthéon. Highly recommended.
♦ Klaus Barbie on Moulin - Barbie's 1972 interview with French media describing his supposedly cordial interrogation of Moulin, which says more about himself than Moulin.
♦ The Resistance in the Pantheon - History Today column on Moulin's role in the Resistance. Recommended.
♦ The Caluire Arrest - summary by Gérard Chauvy
♦ Who Is Jean Moulin? - Time International, December 14, 1998
♦ Spartacus Educational Net - Jean Moulin entry
♦ Daily Ojbectivist - Jean Moulin entry
♦ Trial of Klaus Barbie - Jean Moulin page
♦ History of Espionage - Jean Moulin entry
♦ Jean Moulin - 60th annivesary of Moulin's death commemorated by Caluire and Curie. Still in construction (in French)
♦ 60th Anniversary of the Caluire Arrest - Caluire et Curie (in French)
♦ Le centenaire de Jean Moulin - from Fédération Nationale des Déportés et Internés Résistants et Patriotes (in French)
♦ Centre régional Résistance et Liberté
- Jean Moulin site (in French)
On the French Resistance
♦ Charles de Gaulle - Foundation and Institute Charles de Gaulle official website. Highly Recommended.
♦ De Gaulle and the Free French Movement - personal site with in-depth materials on de Gaulle. Recommended.
♦ The French Resistance - World War Two Study Center. Recommended
♦ The French Resistance - Spartacus Educational Net. Recommended.
♦ Timeline of French Resistance - Order of Liberation
♦ The Trial of Klaus Barbie - Highly Recommended.
♦ Special Operations Executive - British intelligence and sabotage agency during the Second World War. From BBC Online.
♦ Special Operations Executive F Section - Idealistic young agents parachuted into Occupied France to organize resistance.
♦ Training of SOE Agents - BBC Online
♦ An Allied Team With the French Resistance - an American intelligence operative's recollections of his experiences with the Maquis during and after the Normandy invasion.
♦ Growth of the French Resistance by Colonel Rémy
- The French Resistance. Recommended
♦ Free French - Britannica Online
♦ Henri Frenay - Spartacus Educational Net
♦ Pierre de Bénouville - an obituary in Manchester Guadian
♦ Who Do We Think We Are? - Washington Post column by Richard Cohen in which he views the recent French trend to debunk the Resistance mythology as excessive. He argues that the French myth of the Resistance is not unique but that every country has her own mythology. Highly recommended.
♦ The Sign of the Cross - description of life in Montluc Prison
♦ Songs of the Occupation - lyrics of songs sung by the resistants and other French during the occupation; La Marseillaise, The Song of Partisans, L'Internationale, etc
♦ Reflections on the Memory at the Millenium - Comparative Literature academic essay by Susan Rubin Suleiman on the Aubrac affair and the general problems of memory. Highly recommended.
♦ Liberation of Paris chronology - Paris.org
♦ Paris Liberated - Tuesday September 12, 1944. Manchester Guardian article
♦ Albert Camus
♦ The Journalism of the French Resistance - A underground war of words, by Pierre Albert.
♦ The Order of the Liberation - English homepage
♦ General Delestraint - Highly recommended. (In French)
On Vichy France
♦ Vichy France - Spartacus Educational Net
♦ Henri-Phillipe Pétain - Spartacus Educational Net
♦ Pierre Laval - Spartacus Educational Net
♦ Vichy France and Collaboration - political military history site
♦ The Vichy of the National Revolution - The University of Sunderland
♦ State Collaboration - Vichy's state policy of collaboration. The University of Sunderland
♦ Vichy 1942-44: Laval and Germany's Total War - The University of Sunderland
♦ Maurice Chevailer Chansons - lyrics of chasons featured in The Sorrow and the Pity
♦ Marshal Pétain's address to French people - Vichy, France, August 12, 1941
♦ Drancy Transit Camp - French concentration camp that served as a transit to Auschwitz death camp.
♦ A Dry Chronicle of the Purge - Summary Executions in Certain Communes of Charente Limousine by the resistants
♦ Trial and execution of Robert Brasillach, - Time review on the book, The Collaborator.
♦ Vichy syndrome - The University of Sunderland
♦ Fascism in France: Half Century After Vichy
♦ Memory, the Holocaust, and French Justice: The Bousquet and Touvier Affairs
On World War Two
♦ Second World War - BBC Online
♦ The Allies At War - enmity among Roosevelt, Churchill, and de Gaulle during the war. BBC online.
♦ The Maginot Line - Virtual tour of the Maginot Line
♦ The Maginot Line - an article from Smithsonian Magazine.
♦ Battle of France, 1940
♦ The Technician: Guderian's Breakthrough at Sedan - Rand Corporation. PDF file.
♦ Normandy Invasion - U.S. Army official site.
♦ Normany American Cemetery and Memorial - American Battle Monuments Commission
On Holocaust
♦ The Simon Wiesenthal Center - Museum of Tolerance Multimedia Learning Center homepage
♦ A Teacher's Guide to Holocaust
♦ The Gestapo - The Simon Wiesenthal Center
♦ Nuremberg Trial - University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law
♦ Auschwitz-Birkenau Camp - The Simon Wiesenthal Center
♦ Dachau Memorial
♦ Buchenwald Concentration Camp
♦ Night and Fog - text of Night and Fog decree
♦ The Beate Klaresfeld Foundation - the Nazi-hunter who brought Klaus Barbie to justice
On French History and other Related Subjects
♦ The French Revolution - From britannia.com
♦ Paris Commune 1871 - The University of New South Wales
♦ The Third Republic of France
♦ The Dreyfus Affair - From Zola and Naturalism Study Center
♦ World War One - BBC Online
♦ The Battle of Verdun
♦ The French Far Right - PDF file
♦ Stavisky Affair - Columbia Encyclopedia
♦ Léon Blum - from Britannica Encyclopedia
♦ The Popular Front - from Britannica Encyclopedia
♦ The Spanish Civil War - from Britannica Encyclopedia
♦ Max Jacob - from Britannica Encyclopedia
♦ La lutte continue...? Contemporary history and Algeria - History Today, February 1977
♦ The Panthéon - from Britannica Encyclopedia
♦ Miquelon.org