La Vie en Bleu: France and the French Since 1900

Rod Kedward brings to life the great, and often terrible, dramas of modern France � the two cataclysmic wars, the Algerian disaster, the student and worker revolt of 1968 � but also explores the special worlds of the workplace, immigration, minorities, the role of women, and the politics of everyday life and collective memory. La Vie en Bleu is a history of people and events that tells a multitude of stories, some impressive, some shameful and many that starkly divide the French among themselves.