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Hitler's vineyards : how the French winemakers collaborated with the Nazis / Christophe Lucand ; translated from the French by Alan McKay.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lucand, Christophe, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--France.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 224 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England ; Philadelphia : Pen & Sword Military, [2019]
- Summary:
- "Fascinating.Detailed, well-written, and controversial, Lucand's history of France and its wine during the Nazi Occupation is an unexpected treat." -- The Wine Economist During the Second World War, French wine was hardly a trivial product.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter One Wine Goes to War
- A universal drink under control
- Wine diplomacy under the influence
- Bad Kreuzbach, the last World Wine Congress
- Wine during the Phoney War
- The 'soldier's mulled wine'
- Chapter Two The Wine Rush
- The shock of defeat and commercial excitement
- The Weinführers and the advent of a new order
- Collaboration between the mule and the coachman
- Reorganising the vineyards
- The legal market and black market
- Chapter Three The Happy Days of Defeat
- The black market and Nazi purchasing offices
- What do you expect? Business is business!
- I'm a 'born collaborator'!
- French wines for Hitler's 'secret weapons'?
- Monaco: world capital of the wine trade
- Chapter Four The Intoxication of War
- Vichy: fascist agrarianism and the defence of viticulture
- Burgundy: viticulture without wine merchants
- Champagne: the excitement of a prosperous trade
- Cognac and Armagnac: at the heart of the German black market
- Bordeaux: hub of the national wine trade
- Chapter Five All Shamefully Drunk
- Game over: towards the collapse
- Turning the page of war: the question of 'collaborating' with the enemy
- Collaboration? What collaboration?
- Trafficking and conspiracy
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Notes
- Image Credits
- Plate section.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-5267-5074-0
- 1-5267-5072-4
- OCLC:
- 1204136852
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