Robert Gildea

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Robert Gildea (born 1952) is professor of modern French history at the University of Oxford and is the author of several influential books on 20th century French history. For his 2002 Marianne in Chains: Daily Life in the Heart of France During the German Occupation (London: Picador. ISBN 0-312-42359-4), Gildea won the prestigious Wolfson History Prize. The book, however, outraged members of the French academical elite through its documented claims that life in France had not been as adversely affected by the Nazi occupation because many French people had co-operated with the German invaders - far more so than previously believed. He lives in Oxford. He will shortly be elevated to the more prestigious position of Professor of Modern History at Oxford University.