| Description |
xvii, 274 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Making of the modern world |
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Making of the modern world (Oxford University Press)
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| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Introduction -- Part I: The Story -- 1. 'We Are Beaten' -- 16 May 1940: Churchill in Paris -- The Mysterious General Gamelin -- 'Ready for War': Tanks and Guns -- The Air Force -- French Military Doctrine: 'Retired on Mount Sinai'? -- Fighting in Belgium: The Dyle Plan -- The Matador's Cloak -- The Allied Order of Battle -- 10-15 May: Into Belgium -- 10-12 May: Through the Ardennes -- 13 May: The Germans Cross the Meuse -- 14-15 May: The Counter-attack Fails: The Tragic Fate of the Three DCRs -- 17-18 May: The Tortoise Head -- 19-20 May: 'Without Wishing to Intervene...': The End of Gamelin -- 2. Uneasy Allies -- 21 May 1940: Weygand in Ypres -- Looking for Allies:. 1920-1938 -- Elusive Albion: Britain and France 1919-1939 -- The Alliance That Never Was -- Gamelin's Disappointments: Poland, Belgium, Britain -- Britain and France in the Phoney War -- 10-22 May: 'Allied to so Temperamental a Race' -- 22-25 May: The 'Weygand Plan' -- The Belgian Capitulation -- 26 May-4 June: Operation Dynamo -- After Dunkirk: 'In Mourning For Us' -- 3. The Politics of Defeat -- 12 June 1940: Paul Reynaud at Cango (Loire) -- The French Civil War -- 'Rather Hitler than Blum?' -- April 1938-September 1939: The Daladier Government -- Daladier at War -- Reynaud v. Daladier -- Reynaud at War -- 25-28 May: Weygand's Proposal -- 29 May-9 June: Reynaud's Alternative -- 12-16 June: Reynaud v. Weygand -- 16 June: Reynaud's Resignation -- 4. The French People at War -- 17 June 1940: Georges Friedmann in Niort -- Remembering 1914 -- A Pacifist Nation -- Going to War: 'Something between Resolution and Resignation' -- Phoney War Blues -- Why Are We Fighting? -- The French Army in 1940 -- Soldiers at War I: 'Confident and Full of Hope' -- Soldiers at War II: 'The Germans Are at Bulson' (13 May) -- Soldiers at War III: The 'Molecular Disintegration' of the 7iDI -- The Exodus -- Soldiers at War IV: 'Sans esprit de recul' (5-10 June) -- Part Ii: Causes, Consequences, And Counterfactuals -- 5. Causes and Counterfactuals -- July 1940: Marc Bloch in Gueret -- Historians and the Defeat -- Counterfactuals I: -- Counterfactuals II: Britain's Finest Hour -- The Other Side of the Hill: Germany -- Explaining Defeat: 'Moving in a Kind of Fog' -- Army and Society -- 6. Consequences -- June 1940: Francois Mitterrand at Verdun: 'No Need to Say More' -- Vichy: The Lessons of Defeat -- 'Fulcrum of the Twentieth Century' -- Gaullism and 1940 -- National Renewal after 1945 -- 1940 and Colonial Nostalgia -- 1940 Today |
| Summary |
"Using eyewitness accounts, memoirs, and diaries, Julian Jackson recreates, in detail, the intense atmosphere and dramatic events of these six weeks in 1940, unravelling the historical evidence to produce a fresh answer to the perennial question of whether the defeat of France was inevitable."--Jacket |
| Analysis |
Vichy regime (France) Petain, Philippe |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
France. Armée -- History -- World War, 1939-1945
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Western Front.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Western Front -- Sources.
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Morale.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- France.
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| SUBJECT |
France -- Defenses.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008115070
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France -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051256 -- World War, 1939-1945
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France -- Politics and government -- 1940-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051486
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France -- History -- 1914-1940. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051417
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France -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051418
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| LC no. |
2002044697 |
| ISBN |
019280300X |
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9780192803009 |
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