Thought provoking observation on the widest range of subjects. Acclaimed Swedish poet, feminist and journalist Bodil Malmsten abandoned her native country at the age of 55 to settle in Finistere, Brittany.

Peasants against Politics provides a new perspective on the process of rural politicization and offers a fresh interpretation of the lag that modernization theorists have discovered between socioeconomic progress and political development.

This book will be of interest to scholars and students of history, religious studies, political science, anthropology, and contemporary European politics.

Spring 1944. Rosie Ewing an SOE radio operator is returning to German occupied France to help the Maquis prepare for the Normandy Landings.