1st Edition

The Fall of France 1940

By Andrew Shennan Copyright 2000
    196 Pages
    by Routledge

    196 Pages
    by Routledge

    Offering a fresh critical perspective on this momentous event, Andrew Shennan examines both the continuities and discontinuities that resulted from the events of 1940. The main focus is on the French experience of the war, but this experience is framed within the larger context of France's - and Europe's - protracted mid-twentieth century crisis.

    Preface, Prologue: May-June 1940: fragments and impressions AR? ONE: ??? POLI?ICS OF DEFEAT 1. Expectations 2. Post-defeat politics: impotence and improvisation 3. Vichy, resistance, and the lessons of defeat 4. 1940 after Liberation PART ?WO: ??? DEFEAT IN ?ISTORY 5. The short term: aftermath ?. The medium term: transitions 7. The long term: legacies

    Biography

    Andrew Shennan