Henri Michel (April 28, 1907 in

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– June 5, 1986 in

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) was a French

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, who studied the

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. He created the Comité d'Histoire de la Deuxième Guerre Mondiale and the '' Revue d'Histoire de la Deuxième Guerre Mondiale''.

Works

* ''Tragédie de la déportation'', 1954. * ''Histoire de la Résistance : (1940-1944)'', 1958. * ''Les Mouvements clandestins en Europe (1938-1945)'', 1961. * ''Les Courants de pensée de la Résistance'', 1962. * ''Histoire de la France libre'', 1963. * ''Jean Moulin l'unificateur'', 1964. * ''Combat : histoire d'un mouvement de Résistance de juillet 1940 à juillet 1943'', 1967. * ''Vichy : Année 1940'', 1967. * ''La Guerre de l'ombre ; La Résistance en Europe'', 1970. * ''La Drôle de guerre'', 1971. * ''La Seconde Guerre Mondiale'', 1972. * ''Pétain, Laval, Darlan, trois politiques ?'', 1972. * ''Les Fascismes'', 1977. * ''Pétain et le régime de Vichy'', 1978. * ''Le Procès de Riom'', 1979. * ''La Libération de Paris'', 1980. * ''La Défaite de la France (septembre 1939-juin 1940'', 1980. * ''Histoire de la France libre'', 1980. * ''Paris allemand'', 1981. * ''Paris résistant'', 1982. * ''Et Varsovie fut détruite'', 1984. * ''The shadow war : Resistance in Europe, 1939-1945'', 1972. * ''The Second World War'', 1975.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Michel, Henri Historians of France People from Var (department) 1907 births 1986 deaths Historians of Vichy France 20th-century French historians French male writers Winners of the Prix Broquette-Gonin (literature) Historians of World War II