Parades and Politics at Vichy : the French Officer Corps Under Marshal Pétain
Title | Parades and Politics at Vichy : the French Officer Corps Under Marshal Pétain PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Owen PAXTON |
Publisher | Princeton, N. J. : Princeton University Press |
Pages | 472 |
Release | 1966 |
Genre | France History German occupation, 1940-1945 |
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Parades and Politics at Vichy
Title | Parades and Politics at Vichy PDF eBook |
Author | Robert O. Paxton |
Publisher | |
Pages | 472 |
Release | 1966 |
Genre | France |
ISBN |
Parades and Politics at Vichy
Title | Parades and Politics at Vichy PDF eBook |
Author | Robert O. Paxton |
Publisher | |
Pages | 472 |
Release | 1966 |
Genre | France |
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Marshal Pétain
Title | Marshal Pétain PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Griffiths |
Publisher | Faber & Faber |
Pages | 398 |
Release | 2011-05-19 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0571279090 |
Marshal Philippe Pétain was, in the words of historian Andrew Roberts, 'the most controversial Frenchman of the twentieth century.' A truly distinguished soldier who rose from humble origins, he commanded French forces at Verdun in 1916 and became a national hero. But though by 1940 he had become French Deputy Prime Minister his political abilities were meagre. And after France fell to the Nazis it was Pétain who signed the armistice and, from the spa town of Vichy, ruled over the Etat Francais Hitler had left him. Richard Griffiths tells this sorry story in outstanding detail, all the way to Pétain's ignominious end, and not stinting to show his culpability in the Vichy persecution of French Jews and its suppression of the internal Resistance. 'Petain, utterly obscure until the age of 58, was hurled to fame by his defence of Verdun in 1916. This saved his country's bacon (he would say her honour) at a crisis point of the Great War. Thereafter he became an almost monarchical figure, more revered than any living Frenchman, even after the disaster of 1940. But then, as head of the puppet Vichy government, he slid into ignominy after failing to square honour with military humiliation. Griffiths's durable biography... paints not a devil but a courageous, misguided man with a hole where others keep their political acumen.' Robin Blake, Independent
Police and Politics in Marseille, 1936-1945
Title | Police and Politics in Marseille, 1936-1945 PDF eBook |
Author | Simon Kitson |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 326 |
Release | 2014-05-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004265236 |
Simon Kitson's Police and Politics in Marseille, 1936-1945 offers a ’history from below’ analysis of the attitude of the Marseille Police between the Popular Front and the Liberation of France. Kitson highlights the specificities of policing France’s largest port: clientelism, corruption, a floating population and high levels of criminality, including organised crime. But he also demonstrates why many of his conclusions about Police attitude can be generalised to other parts of France and, in so doing, challenges many of the assumptions of the existing historiography. Although they zealously hunted down Jews and communists, the Police were not as reliable for the Vichy government as is commonly assumed and were, undoubtedly, far more involved in Resistance than most sectors of society.
Irregular Armed Forces and their Role in Politics and State Formation
Title | Irregular Armed Forces and their Role in Politics and State Formation PDF eBook |
Author | Diane E. Davis |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 431 |
Release | 2003-01-13 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1139439987 |
Existing models of state formation are derived primarily from early Western European experience, and are misleading when applied to nation-states struggling to consolidate their dominion in the present period. In this volume, scholars suggest that the Western European model of armies waging war on behalf of sovereign states does not hold universally. The importance of 'irregular' armed forces - militias, guerrillas, paramilitaries, mercenaries, bandits, vigilantes, police, and so on - has been seriously neglected in the literature on this subject. The case studies in this book suggest, among other things, that the creation of the nation-state as a secure political entity rests as much on 'irregular' as regular armed forces. For most of the 'developing' world, the state's legitimacy has been difficult to achieve, constantly eroding or challenged by irregular armed forces within a country's borders. No account of modern state formation can be considered complete without attending to irregular forces.
Verdict on Vichy
Title | Verdict on Vichy PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Curtis |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 615 |
Release | 2015-01-27 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1628724811 |
This masterful book is the first comprehensive reappraisal of the Vichy France regime for over 20 years. France was occupied by Nazi Germany between 1940 and 1944, and the exact nature of France's role in the Vichy years is only now beginning to come to light. One of the main reasons that the Vichy history is difficult to tell is that some of France's most prominent politicians, including President Mitterand, have been implicated in the regime. This has meant that public access to key documents has been denied and it is only now that an objective analysis is possible. The fate of France as an occupied country could easily have been shared by Britain, and it is this background element, which enhances our fascination with Vichy France. How would we have acted under similar circumstances? The divisions and repercussions of the Vichy years still resonate in France today, and whether you view the regime as a fascist dictatorship, an authoritarian offshoot of the Third Reich or an embodiment of heightened French nationalism, Curtis's rounded, incisive book will be seen as the standard work on its subject for many years. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in history--books about World War II, the Third Reich, Hitler and his henchmen, the JFK assassination, conspiracies, the American Civil War, the American Revolution, gladiators, Vikings, ancient Rome, medieval times, the old West, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.