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A Telegraph, Spectator, Prospect, and Times Best Book of the Year "Enthralling."―Geoffrey Wheatcroft, New York Review of Books "This is a story not just about P tain but about war and resistance, the moral compromises of leadership, and the meaning of France itself."―Margaret MacMillan For three... Read More about France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain

This is the first full-length study in English of the Popular Front, the left-wing coalition which emerged in France during the 1930s in response to the threat of fascism and which went on to win the elections of 1936, giving France her first socialist premier, L on Blum. After a brief narrative his... Read More about The Popular Front in France: Defending Democracy, 1934-38

This is the first comprehensive study of the German occupation of France between 1940 and 1944. The author examines the nature and extent of collaboration and resistance, different experiences of Occupation, the persecution of the Jews, intellectual and cultural life under Occupation, and the purge ... Read More about France, the Dark Years 1940-1944

The poor performance of the French economy in the 1930s has long been recognised as a major contributory factor in the decline of the Third Republic, which collapsed after the defeat of 1940. Although France entered the Great Depression later than the rest of the world, French governments failed to ... Read More about The Politics of Depression in France 1932-1936

This book provides a thought-provoking and wide-ranging history of the whole of Europe between 1900 and 1945. Featuring six lively and stimulating chapters that have been specifically written for this volume, Europe 1900-1945 focuses on the political, economic, social, and cultural aspects of this t... Read More about Short Oxford History of Europe