Vichy France
Feb 2015 · Sold by Knopf
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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.
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.
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 P...
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Denis S
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August 16, 2020
For a book renowned for having finally turned s more critical eye to the Vichy regime, the book is remarkably measured. The writing is crisp and evocative, and always a pleasure to read. The footnotes are helpful and add many insights. I've now started Jukian Jackson's France: The Dark Years, which builds on this book.
John Bethea
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November 3, 2019
An excellent analysis that helped shift public discussion to reflect the truth.
About the author
ROBERT O. PAXTON was born in Lexington, Virginia, in 1932. He received his B.A. from Washington and Lee University, an M.A. from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar, and his Ph.D. from Harvard University. From 1961 to 1967 he taught at Berkeley, and after two years at the State University of New York at Stony Brook is now Professor of Modern Western European History at Columbia University. His book Parades and Politics at Vichy: The French Officer Corps under Marshal Pétain was published by Princeton University in 1966.
ROBERT O. PAXTON was born in Lexington, Virginia, in 1932. He received his B.A. from Washington and Lee University, an M.A. from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar, and his Ph.D. from Harvard University. From 1961 to 1967 he taught at Berkeley, and after two years at the State Unive...
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