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New. <p><b>One of the great contemporary historians of France</b> <b>on one of</b> <b>the most controversial periods of twentieth-century French history<br /></b><br />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… Read More

Allen Lane, 2023. Hardcover. New. 480 pages. 9.37x6.50x1.73 inches.