Petain
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Download Petain PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get Petain book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages. If the content not found or just blank you must refresh this page
Petain
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Robert Bowman Bruce
language : en
Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
Release Date : 2011-09
Petain written by Robert Bowman Bruce and has been published by Potomac Books, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Few figures in modern French history have aroused more controversy than Marshal Philippe Pétain, who rose from obscurity to great fame in the First World War only to fall into infamy during the dark days of Nazi occupation in World War II. Pétain's brilliant theories of firepower and flexible defense, as well as his deep empathy for the soldiers of France and the horrific trials they endured on a daily basis, mark him as one of the greatest Allied generals of World War I. Yet today he is best remembered as the nearly senile marshal who was handed the reins of power in France in the midst of the disastrous 1940 campaign and tasked with seeking terms from Nazi Germany. His leadership of Vichy France from 1940 to 1944 and his postwar conviction of treason and lifetime exile to the Ile d'Yeu made him a scapegoat for the nation. This later perception forever tainted Pétain's military reputation as a soldier who served France his entire life and led the French Army through the crucible of Verdun, the morale crisis of 1917, and on to final victory in the Great War. He was despised for his actions as an octogenarian in June 1940. With the bulk of the French Army already destroyed and Paris itself wide-open to attack, Pétain, then eighty-four, immediately sought an armistice with Germany to halt further bloodshed. While others fled, Pétain took what he considered the braver course by staying and doing what he could to safeguard the remnants of his army and his nation. So began his descent into collaboration, treason, and the destruction of all that he had accomplished and stood for throughout his life.
Marshal P Tain
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Richard Griffiths
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2011-05-19
Marshal P Tain written by Richard Griffiths and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-19 with History categories.
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
Petain
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Nicholas Atkin
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-06-17
Petain written by Nicholas Atkin and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-17 with History categories.
Pétain (1856-1951) remains one of the most controversial figures in the history of modern France. He was saviour of his country at Verdun in 1916 during the First World War, but tried for treason as head of state of the collaborationist Vichy government after World War II. Were his actions those of a traitor? - or a patriot facing the total disintegration of his country? In exploring the actions of this controversial figure, Nicholas Atkin also reveals the divisions and uncertainties of France herself.
Petain
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Charles Williams
language : en
Publisher: Abacus
Release Date : 2007-05
Petain written by Charles Williams and has been published by Abacus this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-05 with 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.
France On Trial
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Julian Jackson
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2023-06-15
France On Trial written by Julian Jackson and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-06-15 with History categories.
One of the great contemporary historians of France on one of the most controversial periods of twentieth-century French history Few images more shocked the French population during the Occupation than the photograph of Marshal Philippe Pétain - the great French hero of the First World War - shaking the hand of Hitler on 20 October 1940. In a radio speech after this meeting, Pétain told the French people that he was 'entering down the road of collaboration'. He ended with the words: 'This is my policy. My ministers are responsible to me. It is I alone who will be judged by History.' Five years later, in July 1945, the hour of judgement - if not yet the judgement of History - arrived. Pétain was brought before a specially created High Court to answer for his conduct between the signing of the armistice with Germany in June 1940 and the Liberation of France in August 1944. Julian Jackson uses Pétain's three-week trial as a lens through which to examine the central crisis of twentieth-century French history - the defeat of 1940, the signing of the armistice and Vichy's policy of collaboration - what the main prosecutor Mornet called 'four years to erase from our history'. As head of the Vichy regime in the Second, Pétain became one of France's most notorious public figures, and the lightening-rod for collective guilt and retribution immediately after the Second World War. In France on Trial Jackson blends politics and personal drama to explore how different national factions sought to try to claim the past, or establish their interpretation of it, as a way of claiming the present and future.
Vichy France
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Robert O. Paxton
language : en
Publisher: Knopf
Release Date : 2015-02-18
Vichy France written by Robert O. Paxton and has been published by Knopf this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-18 with History categories.
Uncompromising, often startling, meticulously documented—this book is an account of the government, and the governed, of colaborationist France. Basing his work on captured German archives and contemporary materials rather than on self-serving postwar memoirs or war-trial testimony, Professor Paxton maps out the complex nature of the ill-famed Vichy government, showing that it in fact enjoyed mass participation. The majority of the Frenchmen in 1940 feared social disorder as the worse imaginable evil and rallied to support the State, thereby bringing about the betrayal of the Nation as a whole.
P Tain S Crime
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Paul Webster
language : en
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher
Release Date : 1991
P Tain S Crime written by Paul Webster and has been published by Ivan R. Dee Publisher this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with History categories.
A controversial best-seller in Paris, this shocking history of French collaboration in the Holocaust accuses Ptain and the Vichy government of independently and enthusiastically seeing to the extermination of French Jews.
P Tain A Biography Of Marshal Philippe P Tain Of Vichy
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Richard Griffiths
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1972
P Tain A Biography Of Marshal Philippe P Tain Of Vichy written by Richard Griffiths and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with World War, 1939-1945 categories.
The Two Marshals Bazaine P Tain
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Philip Guedalla
language : en
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Release Date : 2015-11-06
The Two Marshals Bazaine P Tain written by Philip Guedalla and has been published by Pickle Partners Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-06 with History categories.
A brilliant study of France and French military power through four generations. The careers of the two Marshalls span the years from Napoleon’s downfall to Verdun and Vichy France. “This biography of two soldiers of France is, in effect, a history of the French Army for a hundred years, as well as portraiture of marked differences and striking contrasts. There are strong touches of irony and emphasis in Bazaine’s life and army career, his strength, and innocence in face of public blame following the surrender at Metz in 1870 — and Pétain’s, whose weakness and mediocrity contrast baldly with his predecessor. “The first Marshal was made a scapegoat by his defeated country, and when the second Marshal came to power, the scapegoat was France”. The elaborate sketching of background material, the bird’s eye views of each successive era in French history provide a three-dimensional setting for each man. Bazaine’s is a more thorough characterization, for Petain’s seems more often guesswork and speculation through lack of early factual material. However there is justice and judgement in this study of “the psychology of defeat” and Guedalla’s lively style and personal approach to his subjects is good reading.”-Kirkus Reviews
Petain The Soldier
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Stephen Ryan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-07
Petain The Soldier written by Stephen Ryan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07 with History categories.
Petain the Soldier is the military biography of Marshal Philippe Petain, showing his impact on French military policy during two World Wars. An account of the strategic planning and tactical problems experienced by the French military establishment during the first half of the twentieth century."