Abstract

Several years ago, Shannon Fogg published an important book, The Politics of Everyday Life in Vichy France, in which she analyzed the effects of material distress on the range of attitudes toward the Vichy government and its treatment of strangers, showing that pragmatism generally prevailed over ideology. In this new book, Fogg maintains her focus on the problematics of everyday life but moves her spotlight to the victims of this same Vichy government, the Jews, and widens her chronological scope to include the immediate aftermath of the Second World War. ...

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