Escape From Vichy: The Refugee Exodus To The French Caribbean

Early in World War II, thousands of refugees traveled from France to Vichy-controlled Martinique, en route to safer shores in North, Central, and South America. While awaiting transfer, the exiles formed influential ties--with one another and with local black dissidents. As Eric T. Jennings shows, what began as expulsion became a kind of rescue.

• | Author: Eric T. Jennings
• | Publisher: Harvard University Press
• | Publication Date: Mar 09, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 320 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/History
• | ISBN-10: 0674983386
• | ISBN-13: 9780674983380