Reinventing French Aid

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'Reinventing French Aid is an ambitious, multi-layered and multi-scale history that is international and transnational, but also distinctly French. It offers important new insights into politics and policy in the French occupation zone while telling a rich story about the experiences and interactions between displace persons and relief workers. Humbert brings the many threads of this complex yet compelling history together with great skill to create a clear narrative that contributes in significant ways to an impressive number of fields and debates.' Claire Eldridge, University of Leeds 'Filling a gap in our understanding of the displaced persons' experience, Humbert's book convincingly explores how policy in the French occupation zone was shaped by postwar French domestic politics, French global ambitions, as well as the experiences of the interwar and Vichy periods, and how it impacted the displaced. Lynne Taylor, University of Waterloo 'In this deeply researched book, de Zwarte offers a new understanding of famine causation, deconstructing myths surrounding the Dutch hunger winter. It is a much-needed corrective to the literature of the Nazi occupation.' Saskia Coenen Snyder, Journal of Modern History