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First Name
Valerie
Last Name
Deacon
Country
Canada
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Toronto Metropolitan University
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Keywords
France, Second World War, resistance, extreme-right movements, escape and evasion, aircrews, diplomacy, alliances
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Recent Publications

The Extreme Right in the French Resistance: Members of the Cagoule and Corvignolles during the Second World War (Louisiana State University Press, 2016)

“L’identité francaise libre au prisme du réseau Saint-Jacques”, Françaises et Français libres, une unité née de la diversité, eds. Charlotte Faucher and Laure Humbert, Presses Universitaires de Rennes (2024)

“International cooperation, transnational circulation: Escape, evasion, and resistance in France, 1940-19145”, French Politics, Culture & Society, March 2019, 37:1, 70-89.

“From “femme d’officier, mère de famille” to “grand dame de la Résistance”: Marie-Madeleine Fourcade during the Second World War”, Contemporary French Civilization, July 2017; 42:2, 171-188.

“‘A jolly romp we were always destined to win’: The BBC’s ’Allo ’Allo! and British memories of downed aircrew in Occupied France during the Second World War”, Contemporary European History, February 2017; 26:1, 139-159.

“The First World War in the Middle East: Opportunism, Intervention, and Identity”, special issue of First World War Studies, eds. Andrew Patrick and Valerie Deacon (Vol. 7, No. 1), 2016

“Fitting in to the French Resistance: Georges Loustaunau-Lacau and Marie-Madeleine Fourcade at the intersection of politics and gender”, Journal of Contemporary History, April 2015; 50 (2), 259-273.

Media Coverage
Country Focus
France
Expertise by Geography
France, United Kingdom, Western Europe
Expertise by Chronology
20th century
Expertise by Topic
Diplomacy, Gender, Military, Politics, World War I, World War II