Surveys the mass purges of French collaborators at the end of World War II, based on the records of the Free French forces, the courts, and other archives. The purges by the Resistance began even before the liberation and included collaborators at all levels. Members of the fasc…
Introduction : rebuilding as an urban identification project -- Wartime destruction and historical identification -- Local victory over Moscow : planning for the future -- Accommodation : bringing life to the rubble -- Agitation : rewriting the urban biography in stone -- Persis…
Sevastopol, located in present-day Ukraine but still home to the Russian Black Sea Fleet and revered by Russians for its role in the Crimean War, was utterly destroyed by German forces during World War II. In From Ruins to Reconstruction, Karl D. Qualls tells the complex story o…
