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WGTD's The Morning Show with Greg Berg8/5/24 "Sudden Courage"In honor of the Olympics underway in Paris, France- we are replaying this conversation with Ronald C. Rosbottom, author of 'Sudden Courage: Youth in France Confront the Germans, 1940-1945" .... in which he talks about some of the courageous and inventive ways in which young people in France sought to resist the Nazis during World War Two.
2024-08-0548 min
Talk CocktailThe Model For Taking It To The StreetsJust as we saw in America in the 1960s, as we saw when the Berlin Wall fell, as we witnessed in the Middle East, during the Arab Spring, and as we are witnessing today in Hong Kong, young people are always at the ramparts of change and revolution. This was equally true in France in the run-up to WWII and in the resistance to the German occupation.
On a day when people, mostly young, are taking to the streets, it’s worth talking to Ronald Rosbottom, about Sudden Courage: Youth in France Confront the Germans, 1940-1945
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2019-12-1721 min
Read Learn Live PodcastFrench Youth Resistance in World War II – Ep 63 with Ronald RosbottomThe author of the acclaimed When Paris Went Dark, longlisted for the National Book Award, returns to World War II once again to tell the incredible story of the youngest members of the French Resistance—many only teenagers—who waged a hidden war against the Nazi occupiers and their collaborators in Paris and across France. Sudden Courage: Youth in France Confront the Germans, 1940-1945 is available now.Ronald Rosbottom is the Winifred L. Arms Professor in the Arts and Humanities and a professor of French, European Studies, and Architectural Studies at Amherst College. Previously he was the dean...
2019-09-181h 00
Read Learn Live PodcastFrench Youth Resistance in World War II - Ep 63 with Ronald RosbottomThe author of the acclaimed When Paris Went Dark, longlisted for the National Book Award, returns to World War II once again to tell the incredible story of the youngest members of the French Resistance—many only teenagers—who waged a hidden war against the Nazi occupiers and their collaborators in Paris and across France. Sudden Courage: Youth in France Confront the Germans, 1940-1945 is available now. Ronald Rosbottom is the Winifred L. Arms Professor in the Arts and Humanities and a professor of French, European Studies, and Architectural Studies at Amherst College. Previously he was the dean...
2019-09-181h 00
Don’t Miss The Edge-Of-Your-Seat Full Audiobook Now, Book-Lovers!Sudden Courage by Ronald C. RosbottomPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/128316to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Sudden Courage
Author: Ronald C. Rosbottom
Narrator: Michael David Axtell
Format: mp3
Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
Release date: 08-13-19
Ratings: 4 out of 5 stars, 12 ratings
Genres: France
Publisher's Summary:
On June 14, 1940, German tanks rolled into Paris. Eight days later, France accepted a humiliating defeat and foreign occupation. Most citizens adapted and many even allied themselves with the new fascist leadership. Yet others refused to capitulate; in answer to the ruthless violence, shortages, and curfews imposed by the Nazis, a resistance arose. Among this shadow army were Jews, immigrants, communists...
2019-08-1310h 05
Milt RosenbergWhen Paris Went Dark – author Ronald RosbottomParis. The City of Lights. One of Milt’s favorite cities on the planet. But a curious set of circumstances led to the relatively easy takeover of France by the Nazis. Ronald Rosbottom has made a wonderful entry into that history with his latest, “When Paris Went Dark.”
2015-04-2200 min
Enoch Pratt Free Library PodcastRonald C. Rosbottom, When Paris Went Dark: The City of Light Under German Occupation, 1940-1944On June 14, 1940, German tanks entered a silent and nearly deserted Paris. Eight days later, France accepted a humiliating defeat and foreign occupation. For the next four years, an eerie sense of normalcy would settle over Paris as the occupiers and the occupied struggled to coexist. Using a vast range of sources, Ronald Rosbottom chronicles the important and minor challenges of day-to-day life under Nazi occupation and the many forms of resistance that took shape during that period.Ronald C. Rosbottom is the Winifred L. Arms Professor in the Arts and Humanities and Professor of French and European...
2015-04-081h 06
Listen To The Full Audiobook That Keeps Book-Lovers Hooked.When Paris Went Dark by Ronald C. RosbottomPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/128276to listen full audiobooks.
Title: When Paris Went Dark
Author: Ronald C. Rosbottom
Narrator: Malcolm Hillgartner
Format: mp3
Length: 14 hrs
Release date: 08-05-14
Ratings: 4 out of 5 stars, 159 ratings
Genres: France
Publisher's Summary:
2014-08-0530 min