Format:
Online-Ressource (xvii, 274 p)
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ill, map, plans
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
019280300X
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9780192805508
Series Statement:
Making of the Modern World
Content:
This new book by Julian Jackson, a leading historian of twentieth-century France, charts the breathtakingly rapid events that led to the defeat and surrender of one of the key Allied powers, setting in motion the traumatic years of the Occupation, the Vichy regime, and the rapid escalation of World War Two. - ;On 16 May 1940 an emergency meeting of the French High Command was called at the Quai d'Orsay in Paris. The German army had broken through the French lines on the River Meuse at Sedan and elsewhere, only five days after launching their attack. Churchill, who had been telephoned by Prime
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 250-264) and index
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""Contents""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""List of Maps""; ""Brief Chronology""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Introduction""; ""PART I: THE STORY""; ""1. �We Are Beaten�""; ""16 May 1940: Churchill in Paris""; ""The Mysterious General Gamelin""; ""�Ready for War�: Tanks and Guns""; ""The Air Force""; ""French Military Doctrine: �Retired on Mount Sinai�?""; ""Fighting in Belgium: The Dyle Plan""; ""The Matador�s Cloak""; ""The Allied Order of Battle""; ""10�15 May: Into Belgium""; ""10�12 May: Through the Ardennes""; ""13 May: The Germans Cross the Meuse""
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""14�15 May: The Counter-attack Fails: The Tragic Fate of the Three DCRs""""17�18 May: The Tortoise Head""; ""19�20 May: �Without Wishing to Intervene . . .�: The End of Gamelin""; ""2. Uneasy Allies""; ""21 May 1940: Weygand in Ypres""; ""Looking for Allies: 1920�1938""; ""Elusive Albion: Britain and France 1919�1939""; ""The Alliance That Never Was""; ""Gamelin�s Disappointments: Poland, Belgium, Britain""; ""Britain and France in the Phoney War""; ""10�22 May: �Allied to so Temperamental a Race�""; ""22�25 May: The �Weygand Plan�""; ""The Belgian Capitulation""
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""26 May�4 June: Operation Dynamo""""After Dunkirk: �In Mourning For Us�""; ""3. The Politics of Defeat""; ""12 June 1940: Paul Reynaud at Cangé (Loire)""; ""The French Civil War""; ""�Rather Hitler than Blum?�""; ""April 1938�September 1939: The Daladier Government""; ""Daladier at War""; ""Reynaud v. Daladier""; ""Reynaud at War""; ""25�28 May: Weygand�s Proposal""; ""29 May�9 June: Reynaud�s Alternative""; ""12�16 June: Reynaud v. Weygand""; ""16 June: Reynaud�s Resignation""; ""4. The French People at War""; ""17 June 1940: Georges Friedmann in Niort""
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""Remembering 1914""""A Pacifist Nation""; ""Going to War: �Something between Resolution and Resignation�""; ""Phoney War Blues""; ""Why Are We Fighting?""; ""The French Army in 1940""; ""Soldiers at War I: �Confident and Full of Hope�""; ""Soldiers at War II: �The Germans Are at Bulson� (13 May)""; ""Soldiers at War III: The �Molecular Disintegration� of the 71DI""; ""The Exodus""; ""Soldiers at War IV: �Sans esprit de recul� (5�10 June)""; ""PART II: CAUSES, CONSEQUENCES, AND COUNTERFACTUALS""; ""5. Causes and Counterfactuals""; ""July 1940: Marc Bloch in Gueret""
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""Historians and the Defeat""""Counterfactuals I: 1914""; ""Counterfactuals II: Britainâ€?s Finest Hour""; ""The Other Side of the Hill: Germany""; ""Explaining Defeat: â€?Moving in a Kind of Fogâ€?""; ""Army and Society""; ""6. Consequences""; ""June 1940: FranÃois Mitterrand at Verdun: â€?No Need to Say Moreâ€?""; ""Vichy: The Lessons of Defeat""; ""â€?Fulcrum of the Twentieth Centuryâ€?""; ""Gaullism and 1940""; ""National Renewal after 1945""; ""1940 and Colonial Nostalgia""; ""1940 Today""; ""Guide to Further Reading""; ""Notes""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780192805508
Additional Edition:
Print version The Fall of France : The Nazi Invasion of 1940
Language:
English
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