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In 1940, French democracy committed suicide. What came next is still under debate.
Published in 1972, this book revolutionized French history and shaped a generation of French citizens. Its assessment is more persuasive than ever. Read it if you haven't, re-read it if you have.
Robert O. Paxton's classic study of the aftermath of France's sudden collapse under Nazi invasion utilizes captured German archives and other contemporary materials to construct a strong and disturbing account of the Vichy period in France. With a new introduction and updated bibliography, Vichy France demonstrates that the collaborationist government of Marshal Petain did far more than merely react to German pressures. The Vichy leaders actively pursued their own double agenda-internally, the authoritarian and racist "national revolution," and, externally, an attempt to persuade Hitler to accept this new France as a partner in his new Europe.
It is April 1st, 2038. Day 60 of China's blockade of the rebel island of Taiwan.
The US government has agreed to provide Taiwan with a weapons system so advanced that it can disrupt the balance of power in the region. But what pilot would be crazy enough to run…
I find how history is remembered as fascinating and compelling as I do history itself because it says so much about a culture or society. Jackson's detailed and riveting account of the trial of Marshall Petain reveals a great deal about the cultural and political divisions that remind one of the Dreyfus Affair or the divisions characteristic of our own times. You won't need to have a special interest in French history to find this account riveting - it deals with a past that affected the entire world and left ramifications that still haunt us today.
For three weeks in July 1945 all eyes were fixed on a humid Paris, where France's disgraced former head of state was on trial, accused of masterminding a plot to overthrow democracy. Would Philippe Petain, hero of Verdun, be condemned as the traitor of Vichy?
In the terrible month of October 1940, few things were more shocking than the sight of Marshal Philippe Petain-supremely decorated hero of the First World War, now head of the French government-shaking hands with Hitler. Pausing to look at the cameras, Petain announced that France would henceforth collaborate with Germany. "This is my policy," he…
