<p><b>*WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2023*</b><br><b>*A <i>NEW YORKER</i> BOOK OF THE YEAR*<br><br>''The best book about the subject I have ever read'' Max Hastings, <i>Sunday Times</i></b><br><br><b>A sweeping history of occupation and resistance in war-torn Europe, from the acclaimed author of <i>The Eagle Unbowed</i></b><br><br>Across the whole of Nazi-ruled Europe the experience of occupation was sharply varied. Some countries - such as Denmark - were within tight limits allowed to run themselves. Others - such as France - were constrained not only by military occupation but by open collaboration. In a historical moment when Nazi victory seemed permanent and irreversible, the question ''why resist?'' was therefore augmented by ''who was the enemy?''.<br><br><i>Resistance</i> is an extraordinarily powerful, humane and haunting account of how and why all across Nazi-occupied Europe some people decided to resist the Third Reich. This could range from open partisan warfare in the