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The Fall of France in the Second World War: History and Memory

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1st ed. 2019 edition 

by Richard Carswell (Author) 

This book examines how the fall of France in the Second World War has been recorded by historians and remembered within society. It argues that explanations of the fall have usually revolved around the four main themes of decadence, failure, constraint and contingency. It shows that the dominant explanation claimed for many years that the fall was the inevitable consequence of a society grown rotten in the inter-war period.  This view has been largely replaced among academic historians by a consensus which distinguishes between the military defeat and the political demise of the Third Republic. It emphasizes the contingent factors that led to the military defeat. At the same time it seeks to understand the constraints within which France’s policy-makers were required to act and the reasons for their policy-making failures in economics, defence and diplomacy.

Details

Year:
2019
Pages:
283
Language:
English
Format:
PDF
Size:
2 MB
ISBN-10:
3030039544
ISBN-13:
978-3030039547
ASIN:
B07NBXL8V4
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