Life with the Enemy: Collaboration and Resistance in Hitler's Europe 1939-1945

Translated by J. Maxwell Brownjohn

In this book Werner Rings covers the various kinds of resistance to and collaboration with German powers that occurred during the second world war. What makes Rings's text unique is that rather than taking the more moral-centered stance that all who collaborated were evil and all who resisted good, Rings takes care to explain the various ways in which resistance was often futile and costly and in which collaboration was often necessary. Complete with narratives from countless individuals, Rings's text provides an interesting insight into the resistance and collaborative movements of the Second World War.