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Parades and Politics at Vichy
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In June 1940 the French Army that Europe had known and feared since Louis XIV vanished in the most overwhelming defeat ever suffered by the military force of a modern nation. This is the story of what really happened to that army.Originally published in 1966.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- I. June 1940: The French Army Lives On
- II. L'Armée Nouvelle
- III. July-December 1940: Neutrality or Revanche?
- IV. A Plague on Both Their Houses
- V. Liberation in Captivity
- VI. The Officers Turned Schoolmaster
- VII. 1941: Neutrality Entrenched
- VIII. The Uses and Abuses of Freedom: Officers in Politics, 1941-42
- IX. The Party of Revanche: Resistance in the Armistice Army
- X. 1942: Neutrality Threatened
- XI. November 1942: Neutrality Defended
- XII. After November 1942: The Officers Dispersed
- XIII. In the Mainstream of French Army Tradition
- Bibliographical Note
- Abbreviations and Short Titles Used in Footnotes
- Index