[ A] welcome addition to a growing literature about everyday life in wartime France and, as the editors point out, should be read alongside those works [ The] editors should be praised for their dedication to bringing together scholars who work in both English and French and for ensuring the French scholarship was translated into English. This feature makes the collection particularly valuable for people who teach in English, but want to include contemporary French scholarship. * H-France * The authors significantly expand our understanding of ordinary and not-so-ordinary French men and women during the Vichy era and illuminate the lived experiences of people typically elided in political or economic histories Many of the chapters offer innovative methodological approaches, ask novel questions, or plumb new source bases. * History: Reviews of New Books * This book opens fresh perspectives on Vichy France, reversing the standard focus on elites by approaching the regime from below. It explores ordinary, everyday life under the Occupation with its challenges, privations and daily preoccupations, offering insights into lived experience stretching from the banal and humdrum to the extraordinary and heroic. * James Shields, Professor of French Politics and Modern History, Aston University, UK *
