Edited by: Robert Tombs, Dr. [St. John's College Cambridge] and Isabelle Tombs, Dr. [South Bank University (London)]

Published by Primary Source Microfilm

From the British Library Newspaper Library, Colindale

Editorial Board:
Prof. Julian Jackson, University of Wales at Swansea
Prof. Roderick Kedward, University of Sussex
Dr. Richard Vinen, King's College, London

Voices from Wartime France, 1939-45: Clandestine Resistance and Vichy Newspapers constitutes the sum of the French press that actually reached Britain during the Occupation of 1940-44. It is the record of what was known by the British about the hearts and minds of the French people at the most dramatic period of their shared history. This unique collection offers the complete French holdings of the British Library, acquired through a variety of intelligence, clandestine and neutral sources, offering as full a view of life during the War as was possible at the time.

The British Library holds many resistance titles never acquired by the Bibliothèque Nationale, as it was under German occupation. Indeed this is the biggest and most important collection of titles from Occupied France anywhere outside France, and has remained almost unknown to the scholarly community. Offering a full picture of the basis on which many key political decisions were made in Britain about the conduct of the war in France, this significant discovery will offer new light on a much studied period.

Resistance papers were produced anonymously by the Maquis, deep in the provinces, and smuggled to Britain to be used by the Foreign Office Intelligence Division. All titles not previously available through the Association pour la Conservation et la Reproduction Photographique de la Presse in their 1964 edition or individual titles available from other publishers will be published in this series.

206 reels in five units