In June 1940 the French Army that Europe had known and feared since Louis XIV vanished in the most overwhelming defeat ever suffered by the military force of a modern nation. This is the story of what really happened to that army.
Originally published in 1966.
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Parades and Politics at Vichy
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Publisher
Princeton University PressYear
2015Print ISBN
9780691623924
9780691650531
eBook ISBN
9781400878390
Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- I. June 1940: The French Army Lives On
- II. L'Armée Nouvelle
- III. July-December 1940: Neutrality or Revanche?
- IV. A Plague on Both Their Houses
- V. Liberation in Captivity
- VI. The Officers Turned Schoolmaster
- VII. 1941: Neutrality Entrenched
- VIII. The Uses and Abuses of Freedom: Officers in Politics, 1941-42
- IX. The Party of Revanche: Resistance in the Armistice Army
- X. 1942: Neutrality Threatened
- XI. November 1942: Neutrality Defended
- XII. After November 1942: The Officers Dispersed
- XIII. In the Mainstream of French Army Tradition
- Bibliographical Note
- Abbreviations and Short Titles Used in Footnotes
- Index
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