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    The Unfree French: Life Under the Occupation

    Richard Vinen

    The swift and unexpected defeat of the French Army in 1940 shocked the nation. This compelling book investigates the impact of the occupation on the people of France and dispels…

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    The Long ‘68: Radical Protest and Its Enemies

    Richard Vinen

    The ‘long 68’ is a striking and original attempt, half a century on, to show how these events, which in some ways still seem so current, stemmed from histories and…

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    Second City

    Richard Vinen

    Richard Vinen makes a compelling case for Birmingham as the overlooked heart of British history

    For over a century, Birmingham has been the second largest town in England. In his…

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    The Unfree French: Life Under the Occupation

    Richard Vinen

    In the summer of 1940, the French army was one of the largest and best in the world, confident of victory. In the space of a few nightmarish weeks all…

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    1968: Radical Protest and Its Enemies

    Richard Vinen

    Now in paperback, a major history of one of the seminal years in the postwar world, when rebellion and disaffection broke out on an extraordinary scale.

    The year 1968 saw…

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    A History In Fragments: Europe in the Twentieth Century

    Richard Vinen

    The history of forces that shaped the lives of individual Europeans is the thrust of Richard Vinen’s survey of this century. It argues that there is no single history that…

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    Second City: Birmingham and the Forging of Modern Britain

    Richard Vinen

    Richard Vinen makes a compelling case for Birmingham as the overlooked heart of British history

    For over a century, Birmingham has been the second largest town in England, and at…

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    National Service: A Generation in Uniform 1945-1963

    Richard Vinen

    Winner of the Templer Medal and the Wolfson History Prize, this book attempt to get to grips with the reality of that extraordinary institution, which now seems as remote as…

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    1968: Radical Protest and Its Enemies

    Richard Vinen (Trinity College Cambridge)

    Originally published as The long ‘68 in the United Kingdom in 2018 by Penguin Random House UK –Title page verso.

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    Bourgeois Politics in France, 1945-1951

    Richard Vinen (King's College London)

    A research study of the institutions defending French bourgeois interests during this period. Vinen presents French conservatism as a more subtle and dynamic force than has been previously appreciated, and…

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    The Politics of French Business 1936-1945

    Richard Vinen (Trinity College, Cambridge)

    It has long been assumed that large-scale industry was one of the pillars of support for the Vichy regime. In particular it has been assumed that it used Vichy to…

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    Bourgeois Politics in France, 1945-1951

    Richard Vinen (King's College London)

    A pioneering study of the defence of French bourgeois interests and the nature of French conservatism.

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