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Archives nationales de France, Paris
Institut Charles de Gaulle, Paris
Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa
Mémorial Charles de Gaulle, Colombey-des-Deux-Églises, France
United Kingdom National Archives, London
United States National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, MD.
English Books
Aglion, Raoul. Roosevelt and de Gaulle: Allies in Conflict — A Personal Memoir. New York: Free Press, 1988.
Aron, Robert. De Gaulle Before Paris: The Liberation of France, June–August 1944. London: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1962.
. De Gaulle Triumphant: The Liberation of France. London: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1964.
Atkin, Nicholas. The Forgotten French: Exiles in the British Isles, 1940–44. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2003.
. The French at War, 1934–1944. London: Pearson Education, 2001.
Atkinson, Rick. The Guns at Last Light. New York: Henry Holt, 2013.
. Instructions for American Servicemen in France During World War II. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008.
Badouin, Paul. The Private Diaries of Paul Badouin. Translated by Sir Charles Petrie. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1948.
Barber, Noel. The Week France Fell. London: Macmillan, 1976.
Beevor, Antony, and Artemis Cooper. Paris After the Liberation, 1944–1949. New York: Penguin Books, 2004.
Bennett, G.H. The RAF’s French Foreign Legion: De Gaulle, the British and the Re-emergence of French Airpower, 1940–45. London: Continuum, 2011.
Berthon, Simon. Allies at War. London: HarperCollins, 2001.
Blumenson, Martin. Liberation. New York: Time-Life Books, 1976.
Borden, Mary. Journey Down a Blind Alley. London: Hutchinson, 1946.
Briggs, Asa. The History of Broadcasting in the United Kingdom. 5 vols. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.
Buchwald, Art. Art Buchwald’s Paris. London: Chatto and Windus, 1955.
Chirac, Jacques. My Life in Politics. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Churchill, Winston. The Second World War. Vol. 2, Their Finest Hour. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1949.
. The Second World War. Vol. 4, The Hinge of Fate. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1950.
. The Second World War. Vol. 5, Closing the Ring. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1951.
. The Second World War. Vol. 6, Triumph and Tragedy. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1953.
Clinton, Alan. Jean Moulin, 1899–1943: The French Resistance and the Republic. London: Macmillan Palgrave, 2002.
Cobban, Alfred. A History of Modern France. Vol. 3, 1871–1962. London: Penguin, 1965.
Collins, Larry, and Dominique Lapierre. Is Paris Burning? New York: Simon & Schuster, 1965.
Cook, Don. Charles de Gaulle: A Biography. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1983.
Cook, Tim. Warlords: Borden, Mackenzie King and Canada’s World Wars. Toronto: Penguin, 2012.
Courteaux, Oliver. Canada Between Vichy and Free France, 1940–1945. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013.
Craley, Aiden. De Gaulle: A Biography. London: Collins, 1969.
de Beauvoir, Simone. Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter. Reprint. New York: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2005.
de Gaulle, Charles, The Army of the Future. London: Hutchinson, 1940.
. The Edge of the Sword. London: Faber and Faber, 1960.
. France and Her Army. London: Hutchinson, 1945.
. Memoirs of Hope: Renewal and Endeavor. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1971.
. War Memoirs. Vol. 1, The Call to Honour, 1940–1942. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1955.
. War Memoirs. Vol. 2, Unity, 1942–1944. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1959.
. War Memoirs. Vol. 3, Salvation, 1944–1946. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1959.
de Gramont, Sanche. The French: Portrait of a People. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1969.
de Zavas, Alfred. The Wehrmacht War Crimes Bureau, 1939–1945. Omaha, NB: University of Nebraska Press, 1989.
Eisenhower, Dwight D. Crusade in Europe. New York: Doubleday, 1948.
Erlich, Blake. Resistance, France, 1940–1945. Boston: Little, Brown, 1965.
Fabre-Luce, Alfred. The Trial of Charles de Gaulle. Translated by Antonia White. Introduction by Dorothy Pickles. London: Methuen, 1963.
Fauteux, Claire. Fantastic Interlude. New York: Vantage Press, 1961.
Fenby, Jonathan. The General: Charles de Gaulle and the France He Saved. New York: Skyhorse Publishing, 2012.
Flanner, Janet. Paris Journal, 1944–1965. 2 vols. New York: Atheneum, 1965.
Foot, M.R.D. Resistance: 1940–1945. London: Eyre Methuen, 1976.
. Six Faces of Courage: True Stories of World War II Resistance Fighters. London: Magnum/Methuen, 1978.
. S.O.E. in France: An Account of the Work of the British Special Operations Executive in France. Frederick, MD: University Publications of America, 1984.
Friesen, Karl-Heinz. The Blitzkrieg Legend: The 1940 Campaign in the West. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2005.
Gates, Eleanor M. The End of the Affair: The Collapse of the Anglo-French Alliance, 1939–40. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1981.
Glass, Charles. Americans in Paris: Life and Death Under Nazi Occupation. New York: Penguin Press, 2010.
Haskew, Michael E. De Gaulle: Lessons in Leadership from the Defiant General. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Hatch, Alden. The de Gaulle Nobody Knows. New York: Hawthorne Books, 1960.
Hazareesingh, Sudhar. In the Shadow of the General: Modern France and the Myth of de Gaulle. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
Horne, Alastair. A Savage War of Peace: Algeria, 1954–1962. New York: New York Review of Books, 2006.
. Seven Ages of Paris. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002.
. To Lose a Battle: France, 1940. New York: Penguin Books, 2007.
Humbert, Agnès. Resistance: A Woman’s Journal of Struggle and Defiance in Occupied France. New York: Bloomsbury, 2008. (Originally published as Notre Guerre. Paris: Éditions Émile-Paule Frères, 1946.)
Hynes, Samuel, comp. Reporting World War II. Vol. 2, American Journalism, 1944–46. New York: Library of America. 1995.
Jackson, Julian. The Fall of France: the Nazi Invasion of 1940. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
. France: The Dark Years, 1940–1944. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Jahier, Alice. France Remembered. Introduction by T.S. Eliot. Translated by J.G. Weightman. London: Sylvan Press, Nicholson & Watson, 1944.
Karnow, Stanley. Paris in the Fifties. New York: Random House, 1997.
Kedwood, H.R., and Nancy Wood. The Liberation of France. Washington: Berg Publishers, 1995.
Keegan, John. Six Armies in Normandy. New York: Viking Press, 1982.
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King, William Lyon Mackenzie. The Mackenzie King Diaries, 1893–1950: The Complete Manuscript Entries. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1980.
Lacouture, Jean. De Gaulle: The Rebel, 1890–1944. London: Harvill, 1991.
. De Gaulle: The Ruler, 1945–1970. London: Harvill, 1991
Lambert, Raymond-Raoul. Diary of a Witness, 1940–1943. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2007.
Laval, Pierre. The Unpublished Diary of Pierre Laval. London: Falcon Press, 1948.
Liebling, A.J. The Road Back to Paris. Garden City, NJ: Doubleday, Doran, 1944.
Lottman, Herbert R. The Fall of Paris. London: Sinclair-Stevenson, 1992
. The Left Bank: Writers, Artists, and Politics from the Popular Front to the Cold War. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1982.
Louizillon, Gabriel J. The Bunau-Varilla Brothers and the Panama Canal. Raleigh, NC: Lulu.com, 2008.
Macksey, Kenneth. Guderian: Panzer General. London: Macdonald and Jane’s, 1975.
Mahoney, Daniel J. De Gaulle: Statesmanship, Grandeur, and Modern Democracy. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1960.
Marnham, Patrick. The Death of Jean Moulin: Biography of a Ghost. London: Pimlico, 2001.
Marshall, S.L.A. Battle at Best. Nashville, TN: Battery Classics, 2007.
Mauriac, François. De Gaulle. Translated by R. Howard. New York: Doubleday, 1966.
McCullough, David. The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2011.
Mengin, Robert. No Laurels for de Gaulle. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1966.
Meyer, Karl, and Shareen Brysac. Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Asia. New York: HarperCollins, 1999.
Morgan, Ted. An Uncertain Hour. New York: William Morrow, 1990.
Murphy, Robert. Diplomat Among Warriors. London: Collins, 1964.
Nadeau, Jean-Benoit, and Julie Barlow. The Story of French. New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2006.
Neiberg, Michael. The Blood of Free Men: The Liberation of Paris, 1944. New York: Basic Books, 2012.
Olson, Lynne. Citizens of London. London: Bond Street Books, 2010.
Ousby, Ian. Occupation: The Ordeal of France, 1940–1944. London: Pimlico, 1997.
Paris, Erna. Unhealed Wounds: France and the Klaus Barbie Affair. Toronto: Methuen, 1985.
Paxton, Robert. Vichy France: Old Guard and New Order, 1940–1944. New York: Columbia University Press, 1982.
Paxton, Robert, and Nicholas Wahl, eds. De Gaulle and the United States: A Centennial Reappraisal. Oxford: Berg Publishers, 1994.
Pearson, Lester B. Mike: The Memoirs of The Rt. Hon. Lester B. Pearson. Vol. 3. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1975.
Perrault, Gilles. Paris Under the Occupation. London: André Deutsch, 1989.
Pertinax (Géraud, André). The Gravediggers of France. Garden City, NJ: Doubleday, Doran, 1944.
Pryce-Jones, David. Paris in the Third Reich. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1981.
Reynaud, Paul. In the Thick of the Fight: the Testimony of Paul Reynaud. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1955.
Riding, Alan. And the Show Went On: Cultural Life in Nazi-Occupied Paris. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.
Robb, Graham. Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris. New York: W.W. Norton, 2010.
Robertson, Charles L. When Roosevelt Planned to Govern France. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2011.
Rosenman, Samuel. The Public Papers of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Vol. 2, The Year of Crisis, 1933. New York: Random House, 1938.
Ryan, Cornelius. The Longest Day. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1959.
Schapiro, J. Salwyn. Anticlericalism: Conflict Between Church and State in France, Italy, and Spain. Princeton, NJ: Van Nostrand, 1967.
Shachtman, Tom. The Phony War, 1939–1940. New York: Harper & Row, 1982.
Schoenbrun, David. Soldiers of the Night: The Story of the French Resistance. New York: New American Library, 1980.
. The Three Lives of Charles de Gaulle. New York: Atheneum, 1966.
Scobie, Steven. The Measure of Paris. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2010.
Shirer, William L. The Collapse of the Third Republic: An Inquiry into the Fall of France in 1940. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1969.
Simon, Berton. Allies at War: The Bitter Rivalry Among Churchill, Roosevelt, and de Gaulle. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2001.
Speaight, Robert. Vanier: Soldier, Diplomat and Governor General. Toronto: Collins, 1970.
Spears, Sir Edward L. The Fall of France: June 1940. London: William Heinemann, 1954.
. Two Men Who Saved France. London: Eyre & Spottiswood, 1966.
Sulzberger, Cyrus L. An Age of Mediocrity: Memories and Diaries, 1963–1972. New York: Macmillan, 1973.
. A Long Row of Candles: Memoirs and Diaries, 1934–54. New York: Macmillan, 1979.
Thomson, Dale. Vive le Québec Libre. Toronto: Deneau, 1988.
Thornton, Willis. The Liberation of Paris. London: Rupert-Hart Davis, 1963.
Tornoux, Jean-Raymond. Sons of France: Petain and de Gaulle. New York: Viking Press, 1966.
United States, Department of State. Foreign Relations of the United States: Diplomatic Papers, 1940. Washington, DC: GPO, 1955–61.
. Foreign Relations of the United States: Diplomatic Papers, 1958–60, Vol. II, Part 2, United Nations and General International Matters. Washington, DC: GPO, 1958–60.
Valéry, Paul. Cahiers/Notebooks. 5 vols. Editor-in-chief, Brian Stimpson. Translated by Paul Gifford. New York: Peter Lang, 2000.
Verrier, Anthony. Assassination in Algiers: Churchill, Roosevelt, de Gaulle, and the Murder of Admiral Doran. New York: W.W. Norton, 1990.
Weitz, Margaret Collins. Sisters in the Resistance: How Women Fought to Free France, 1940–1945. New York: Wiley, 1995.
Werth, Alexander. The Last Days of Paris. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1940.
West, Nigel. Secret War: The Story of SOE, Britain’s Wartime Sabotage Organisation. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1992.
White, Edmund. The Flaneur: A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Paris. London: Bloomsbury, 2001.
Wieviorka, Olivier. Divided Memory: French Recollections of World War II from the Liberation to the Present. Stanford, CT: Stanford University Press, 2012.
Williams, Barry. Modern France, 1870–1976. London: Longman, 1980.
Williams, Charles. The Last Great Frenchman: A Life of Charles de Gaulle. London: Little, Brown, 1993.
Zabecki, David T., ed. Ruckzug: The German Retreat From France, 1944. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2012.
Zeldin, Theodore. A History of French Passions. Vol. 1, Ambition and Love: France 1848–1945. The Oxford History of Modern Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979.
French Books
Belot, Robert, et al. Les Résistants: L’histoire de ceux qui refusèrent. L’oeil des archives. Paris: Larousse, 2007.
Bergheaud, Edmond, et al. La France Libérée; Histoire Inconnue de la Libération de Paris. Geneva: Éditions de Crémille, 1994.
Berstein, Serge. La France des années 30. Paris: Armand Colin, 1988.
Bourget, Pierre. Paris année 1944. Paris: Plon, 1944.
Camus, Albert. Actuelles: Chroniques, 1944–1948. Paris: Gallimard, 1950.
Cassin, René. Les homes partis de rien: le réveil de la France abattue, 1940–41. Paris: Plon, 1975.
Dansette, Adrien. La France Libérée: Histoire de la Libération de Paris. Geneva: Éditions de Crémille, 1994.
de Beauvoir, Simone. La Force de l’Age. Paris: Gallimard, 1960.
. Mémoires d’une jeune fille rangée. Paris: Gallimard, 1958.
de Boissieu, Alain. Pour Combattre avec de Gaulle. Paris: Plon, 1981.
de Gaulle, Charles. Discours et Messages. 2 vols. Paris: Plon, 1946.
. Lettres, Notes, et Carnets. Vol. 3, Juin 1940–Juillet, 1941. Paris: Plon, 1981.
. Lettres, Notes, et Carnets. Vol. 4, Juillet 1941–Mai 1943. Paris: Plon, 1982.
. Lettres, Notes, et Carnets. Vol. 5, Juin 1943 – Mai 1945. Paris: Plon, 1983.
. Lettres, Notes, et Carnets. Vol. 6, May 1945–Juin 1951. Paris: Plon, 1984.
. Lettres, Notes, et Carnets. Vol. 7, Juin 1951–Mai 1958. Paris: Plon, 1985.
de Gaulle, Phillippe. De Gaulle: Mon Pere. 2 vols. Paris: Plon, 2003.
de Mirabel, Elisabeth. La liberté souffre violence. Paris: Fayard, 1996.
Dronne, Raymond. La Libération de Paris. Paris: Presses de la Cité, 1970.
Dubief, Henri. Le déclin de la IIIe République: 1929–1938. Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1976.
Flandin, Pierre-Étienne. Politique française, 1919–1940. Paris: Les Éditions Nouvelles, 1947.
Fouéré, Yann. La Patrie Interdite. Paris: Éditions France-Empire, 1987.
Fournier, Laurent, et Alain Eymard. La 2e DB Dans La Liberation de Paris et de sa région. Paris: Histoire et Collections, 2009.
Galante, Pierre. Le Général. Paris: Presses de la Cité, 1968.
Germain, Michel. Le Prix de la Liberté: Chronique de la Haute-Savoie de la bataille des Glières à la Libération et au-delà, 26 mars 1944–19 août 1944. Vol.4, Chronique de la Haute-Savoie pendant la deuxième guerre mondiale. Montmélian: La Fontaine de Siloë, 1993.
Huard, Paul. Le Colonel de Gaulle et ses Blindés: Laon, 15–20 mai 1940. Paris: Plon, 1980.
Michel, Henri. Paris Allemand. Paris: A. Michel, 1981.
Moll, Geneviève. Yvonne de Gaulle: Biographie. Paris: Éditions Ramsay, 1999.
Moulin, Jean. Premier Combat. 1947. Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, 1965.
Paxton, Robert O., et al., eds. Archives de la Vie Littëraire Sous l’Occupation: À travers le désastre. Paris: Tallandier, 2011.
Renan, Joseph. Qu’est-ce qu’une nation? Paris: Mille et une nuits, 1997.
Roussel, Eric. Jean Monnet. Paris: Fayard, 1996.
Sartre, Jean-Paul. Situations, III. Paris: Gallimard, 1949.
Storck-Cerutty, Marguerite. J’étais la femme de Jean Moulin. Roanne, France: Éditions Horvath, 1976.
Touzé, Christine Levisse. Paris libéré, Paris retrouvé. Paris: Gallimard, 1994.
Vaïsse, Maurice. Alger le Putsch. Paris: Éditions Complexe, 1983.
. La grandeur: Politique étrangère du general de Gaulle 1958–1969. Paris: Fayard, 1998.
. Mai–Juin 1940: Défaite Française Victoire Sous l’oeil des Historiens Étrangers. Paris: Autremont, 2010.
. La Puissance ou l’influence? La France dans le monde depuis 1958. Paris: Fayard, 2009.
Vidalenc, Jean. L’Éxode de Mai–Juin 1940. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1957.
Vinde, Victor. La fin d’une grande puissance? La France depuis la déclaration de guerre jusqu’à la révolution nationale . Lausanne: Jean-Marguerat, 1942.
French Periodicals
Espoir, Revue de la Fondation Charles de Gaulle, [Paris]
France Libre [London]
Journal Officiel, Gouvernment de France [Paris]
Paris Match
Le Temps [Paris]
Selected Web Sites
1944 The Liberation of Paris in Color
www.youtube.com/watch?v=skGQ0fVx75o
The Paris Story from the U.S. National Archives
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOkZkjf6itg