Today Sardines Are Not for Sale
Book description
On Mother's Day, 31 May 1942, a group of women stormed a small grocery store at the intersection of two Parisian market streets, the rue de Buci and the rue de Seine, to protest the food shortages that had become a chronic feature of daily life. The then-outlawed French Communist…
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1 author picked Today Sardines Are Not for Sale as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I cannot think of a better example of micro-history, a specialism of mine, that tells the story of a single event yet delves so deeply and reveals so much. Paula Schwartz is a renowned historian of Occupied France who specializes in gender, daily life, and the Communist Party in France during this period of immense upheaval.
Her unequalled knowledge of these areas are brought together in her account of a May 1942 street protest over food shortages that had deep and tragic consequences, and were the tip of the iceberg of a Resistance movement that was in full development. This…
From Robert's list on extraordinary people in Nazi-occupied France.
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