P Tain Et La France
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Ptain
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Author : Charles Williams
language : en
Publisher: Little Brown GBR
Release Date : 2005
Ptain written by Charles Williams and has been published by Little Brown GBR this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with France categories.
Charles Williams' major biography of Philippe Petain (1856-1951) tells of a peasant who became a Marshal of France and the Head of the Vichy State. A slow climb up the army ranks was leading inexorably to retirement when war broke out. He defended Verdun in 1916 and settled the mutinies in 1917. In May 1940, he realised that France had been defeated and requested an armistice. As head of unoccupied France, he jockeyed between Nazis, Allies and Vichy politicians until, in 1945, he returned to France to be tried for treason. His death sentence was commuted by General de Gaulle to life imprisonment. In recounting Petain's long life, Lord Williams, one of our most notable political biographers, has successfully illustrated the character of an extraordinary man.
The Gravediggers Of France Gamelin Daladier Reynaud P Tain And Laval
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Author : Andr? G?raud
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1944
The Gravediggers Of France Gamelin Daladier Reynaud P Tain And Laval written by Andr? G?raud and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1944 with World War, 1939-1945 categories.
When France Fell
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Author : Michael S. Neiberg
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2021-10-19
When France Fell written by Michael S. Neiberg and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-19 with History categories.
Shocked by the fall of France in 1940, panicked US leaders rushed to back the Vichy governmentÑa fateful decision that nearly destroyed the AngloÐAmerican alliance. According to US Secretary of War Henry Stimson, the Òmost shocking single eventÓ of World War II was not the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, but rather the fall of France in spring 1940. Michael Neiberg offers a dramatic history of the American responseÑa policy marked by panic and moral ineptitude, which placed the United States in league with fascism and nearly ruined the alliance with Britain. The successful Nazi invasion of France destabilized American plannersÕ strategic assumptions. At home, the result was huge increases in defense spending, the advent of peacetime military conscription, and domestic spying to weed out potential fifth columnists. Abroad, the United States decided to work with Vichy France despite its pro-Nazi tendencies. The USÐVichy partnership, intended to buy time and temper the flames of war in Europe, severely strained AngloÐAmerican relations. American leaders naively believed that they could woo men like Philippe Ptain, preventing France from becoming a formal German ally. The British, however, understood that Vichy was subservient to Nazi Germany and instead supported resistance figures such as Charles de Gaulle. After the war, the choice to back Vichy tainted USÐFrench relations for decades. Our collective memory of World War II as a period of American strength overlooks the desperation and faulty decision making that drove US policy from 1940 to 1943. Tracing the key diplomatic and strategic moves of these formative years, When France Fell gives us a more nuanced and complete understanding of the war and of the global position the United States would occupy afterward.
Art Of The Defeat
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Author : Laurence Bertrand Dorléac
language : en
Publisher: Getty Publications
Release Date : 2008
Art Of The Defeat written by Laurence Bertrand Dorléac and has been published by Getty Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Art categories.
"Art of the Defeat offers an unflinching look at the pivotal role art played in France during the German occupation. It begins with Adolf Hitler's staging of the armistice at Rethondes and moves across the dark years - analyzing the official junket by French artists to Germany, the exhibition of Arno Breker's colossi in Paris, the looting of the state museums and Jewish collections, the glorification of Philippe P?tain and a pure national identity, the demonization of modernists and foreigners, and the range of responses by artists and artisans. The sum is a pioneering expos? of the deployment of art and ideology to hold the heart of darkness at bay"--Page 4 of cover.
A Gazetteer Of France
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1793
A Gazetteer Of France written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1793 with France categories.
Hitler S Gift To France
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Author : Georges Poisson
language : en
Publisher: Enigma Books
Release Date : 2008
Hitler S Gift To France written by Georges Poisson and has been published by Enigma Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with History categories.
In the dead of the winter of 1940, Hitler decided to return from its burial place in Vienna the ashes of Napoleon II, known as the "Aiglon," the only son of the emperor Napoleon. The gesture was intended to win the support of the French people, but only managed to precipitate a political crisis at Vichy, where Marshal P�tain ordered the pro-German Deputy Prime Minister Pierre Laval arrested. Based on new research and previously unknown documents, the author, historian Georges Poisson, at last sheds light on an incident most historians--including Robert O. Paxton--have been at a loss to explain.
An Historical And Chronological Deduction Of The Origin Of Commerce
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Author : Adam Anderson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1801
An Historical And Chronological Deduction Of The Origin Of Commerce written by Adam Anderson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1801 with Commerce categories.
The Week France Fell
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Author : Noel Barber
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1976
The Week France Fell written by Noel Barber and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with France categories.
"The week France fell gives a vivid and moving picture of a country in defeat. While the refugees leaving Paris struggled to keep one step ahead of the advancing German armies, their political and military leaders were fighting not so much the Germans as among themselves. There is Paul Reynaud, the French premiere -- courageous in his way but hampered by his pro-German mistress, H?l?ne de Portes; the arrogant General Weygand, commander-in-chief of the French army, and the senile Marshal P?tain both committed to an armistice with the Germans. There is the tall figure of de Gaulle who struggled so hard to persuade the government to fight on from North Africa. And of course there is Churchill, at the very heart of the story, whether planning the war in London or flying first to the French army headquarters, and then to the bomb-scarred airfield near Tours, in last-minute efforts to bolster French morale. Against this background of bickering and futility, Noel Barber has arrayed a gallery of ordinary men and women whose lives were caught up in the tragedy. They include Zena Marshall, then a schoolgirl, who had a terrifying journey from Brussels to Bordeaux after her school had been bombed; Drue Tarti?re whom chance placed in a small room in Bordeaux next to P?tain when he made his surrender speech; and Corrine Luchaire, the French actress, who found milk to save just a few of the starving children, among the eight million refugees who clogged the roads"--Jacket.
The History Of France From The Accession Of Henry The Third To The Death Of Louis The Fourteenth Preceded By A View Of The Civil Military And Political State Of Europe Between The Middle And The Close Of The Sixteenth Century From The Accession Of Henry The Third To The Death Of Henry The Fourth
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Author : sir Nathaniel William Wraxall (1st bart.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1814
The History Of France From The Accession Of Henry The Third To The Death Of Louis The Fourteenth Preceded By A View Of The Civil Military And Political State Of Europe Between The Middle And The Close Of The Sixteenth Century From The Accession Of Henry The Third To The Death Of Henry The Fourth written by sir Nathaniel William Wraxall (1st bart.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1814 with categories.
The Gentleman S Magazine
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1791
The Gentleman S Magazine written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1791 with Great Britain categories.