Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2647278 in Books
• Published on: 1996
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 530 pages

Customer Reviews

Reveals the many sided nature of French collaboration
Is a very scholarly analysis of how French politicians, the armed forces and figures from the serious and popular arts reacted to the various stages of the German occupation. Without doubt, the new standard work on these aspects which reveals how the term "collaboratioon" did not necessarily mean full identification with the Reich's cause. The author's purpose does not include detailed treatment of the Resistance, nor will you find much discussion of the Liberation and its consequences for the collaborators. However, the account of Petain, Laval, Darnard and the rest is riveting if you want to understand all the twists and turns which accompanied the Vichy administration in its four tramatic years.