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Author : Jules Roy
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Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Le Grand Naufrage. [On the Trial of Marshal Pétain.]. written by Jules Roy and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jules Roy
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Total Pages : 263 pages
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Download or read book Le Grand Naufrage. The Trial of Marshal Pétain ... Translated ... by Robert Baldick, Etc written by Jules Roy and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Julian Jackson
Publisher : Penguin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780141993096
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (93 download)
Download or read book France on Trial written by Julian Jackson and published by Penguin Press. This book was released on 2024-06-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize 2023 A Telegraph Book of the Year A Times, Spectator and Prospect Book of the Year One of the great contemporary historians of France on one of the most controversial periods of twentieth-century French history Few images more shocked the French population during the Occupation than the photograph of Marshal Philippe Pétain - the great French hero of the First World War - shaking the hand of Hitler on 20 October 1940. In a radio speech after this meeting, Pétain told the French people that he was 'entering down the road of collaboration'. He ended with the words: 'This is my policy. My ministers are responsible to me. It is I alone who will be judged by History.' Five years later, in July 1945, the hour of judgement - if not yet the judgement of History - arrived. Pétain was brought before a specially created High Court to answer for his conduct between the signing of the armistice with Germany in June 1940 and the Liberation of France in August 1944. Julian Jackson uses Pétain's three-week trial as a lens through which to examine the central crisis of twentieth-century French history - the defeat of 1940, the signing of the armistice and Vichy's policy of collaboration - what the main prosecutor Mornet called 'four years to erase from our history'. As head of the Vichy regime in the Second, Pétain became one of France's most notorious public figures, and the lightening-rod for collective guilt and retribution immediately after the Second World War. In France on Trial Jackson blends politics and personal drama to explore how different national factions sought to try to claim the past, or establish their interpretation of it, as a way of claiming the present and future.
Author : Nicholas Atkin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317897978
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book Petain written by Nicholas Atkin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pétain (1856-1951) remains one of the most controversial figures in the history of modern France. He was saviour of his country at Verdun in 1916 during the First World War, but tried for treason as head of state of the collaborationist Vichy government after World War II. Were his actions those of a traitor? - or a patriot facing the total disintegration of his country? In exploring the actions of this controversial figure, Nicholas Atkin also reveals the divisions and uncertainties of France herself.
Author : Julian Jackson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674294564
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)
Download or read book France on Trial written by Julian Jackson and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2023-08-22 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For three weeks in July 1945 all eyes were fixed on a humid Paris, where France’s disgraced former head of state was on trial, accused of masterminding a plot to overthrow democracy. Would Philippe Pétain, hero of Verdun, be condemned as the traitor of Vichy? In the terrible month of October 1940, few things were more shocking than the sight of Marshal Philippe Pétain—supremely decorated hero of the First World War, now head of the French government—shaking hands with Hitler. Pausing to look at the cameras, Pétain announced that France would henceforth collaborate with Germany. “This is my policy,” he intoned. “My ministers are responsible to me. It is I alone who will be judged by History.” Five years later, in July 1945, after a wave of violent reprisals following the liberation of Paris, Pétain was put on trial for his conduct during the war. He stood accused of treason, charged with heading a conspiracy to destroy France’s democratic government and collaborating with Nazi Germany. The defense claimed he had sacrificed his personal honor to save France and insisted he had shielded the French people from the full scope of Nazi repression. Former resisters called for the death penalty, but many identified with this conservative military hero who had promised peace with dignity. The award-winning author of a landmark biography of Charles de Gaulle, Julian Jackson uses Pétain’s three-week trial as a lens through which to examine one of history’s great moral dilemmas. Was the policy of collaboration “four years to erase from our history,” as the prosecution claimed? Or was it, as conservative politicians insist to this day, a sacrifice that placed pragmatism above moral purity? As head of the Vichy regime, Pétain became the lightning rod for collective guilt and retribution. But he has also been an icon of the nationalist right ever since. In France on Trial, Jackson blends courtroom drama, political intrigue, and brilliant narrative history to highlight the hard choices and moral compromises leaders make in times of war.
Author : Jules Roy
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Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (34 download)
Download or read book The Trial of Marshal Pétain written by Jules Roy and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the smoldering afternoon of July 23, 1945, in the imposing First Chamber of the Palais de Justice in Paris, in the presence of lawyers, politicians, leaders of the Resistance, and guards with submachine guns, Marshal Pétain went on trial for his life and the honor of France. The charge was treason. Twenty years later, Jules Roy (who had been loyal to Pétain in the early years of the collaboration with Hitler) for his own peace of mind went back to the records to discover where guilt should be assigned. This dramatic re-creation of the trial is the result.
Author : Anthony Clayton
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253015855
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)
Download or read book General Maxime Weygand, 1867-1965 written by Anthony Clayton and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-06 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lively biography of the French military commander chronicles his legendary and controversial career through WWI, WWII, and beyond. The extraordinary life of General Maxime de Nimal Weygand offers a fascinating glimpse into the perils and politics of 20th century French military leadership. From obscure origins, Weygand rose to a distinguished career as chief of staff for Marshal Foch during World War I and continued to serve his country after the war in Poland and Syria. Alarmed by Nazi Germany’s prodigious rearmament, Weygand locked horns with politicians who were blind to the growing military threat. In fact, he faced accusations that his desire for a strong army was anti-democratic. With German invaders again threatening Paris, Weygand argued for armistice rather than face certain military defeat. During Nazi occupation, he was no friend of the newly-installed Vichy government, and was sent to North Africa. There, he plotted the army’s return to the Allied cause and was imprisoned. Released at wars end, he was rearrested on the orders of Charles de Gaulle and afterwards fought to restore his name. In this concise biography, Anthony Clayton traces the vertiginous changes in fortune of a soldier whose loyalty to France and to the French army was unwavering.
Author : Jules Roy
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Total Pages : 263 pages
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Download or read book The Trial of Marshal Pétain written by Jules Roy and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Norman E. Tutorow
Publisher : Greenwood
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Total Pages : 576 pages
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Download or read book War Crimes, War Criminals, and War Crimes Trials written by Norman E. Tutorow and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1986-08-18 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 4,500 entries, annotated, mostly English and German with some material in other European languages. Includes books, articles, dissertations, microfilms and tapes, and information on the location of documents. Sections IV-VI (pp. 105-256) deal with war crimes in Europe during World War II, the Holocaust, and concentration camps (listing 34 specific camps apart from the general material). Section IX (pp. 283-342) is devoted to the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal, and section XII (pp. 408-428) lists material on the Eichmann trial in 1961.
Author : Milton Dank
Publisher : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
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Author : Chester W. Obuchowski
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Total Pages : 352 pages
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Total Pages : 1626 pages
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Author : Richard Griffiths
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571279090
Total Pages : 398 pages
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Download or read book Marshal Pétain written by Richard Griffiths and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2011-05-19 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marshal Philippe Pétain was, in the words of historian Andrew Roberts, 'the most controversial Frenchman of the twentieth century.' A truly distinguished soldier who rose from humble origins, he commanded French forces at Verdun in 1916 and became a national hero. But though by 1940 he had become French Deputy Prime Minister his political abilities were meagre. And after France fell to the Nazis it was Pétain who signed the armistice and, from the spa town of Vichy, ruled over the Etat Francais Hitler had left him. Richard Griffiths tells this sorry story in outstanding detail, all the way to Pétain's ignominious end, and not stinting to show his culpability in the Vichy persecution of French Jews and its suppression of the internal Resistance. 'Petain, utterly obscure until the age of 58, was hurled to fame by his defence of Verdun in 1916. This saved his country's bacon (he would say her honour) at a crisis point of the Great War. Thereafter he became an almost monarchical figure, more revered than any living Frenchman, even after the disaster of 1940. But then, as head of the puppet Vichy government, he slid into ignominy after failing to square honour with military humiliation. Griffiths's durable biography... paints not a devil but a courageous, misguided man with a hole where others keep their political acumen.' Robin Blake, Independent
Author : British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Total Pages : 576 pages
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Author : Robert Bowman Bruce
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1612340687
Total Pages : 190 pages
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Download or read book Petain written by Robert Bowman Bruce and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few figures in modern French history have aroused more controversy than Marshal Philippe Pétain, who rose from obscurity to great fame in the First World War only to fall into infamy during the dark days of Nazi occupation in World War II. Pétain's brilliant theories of firepower and flexible defense, as well as his deep empathy for the soldiers of France and the horrific trials they endured on a daily basis, mark him as one of the greatest Allied generals of World War I. Yet today he is best remembered as the nearly senile marshal who was handed the reins of power in France in the midst of the disastrous 1940 campaign and tasked with seeking terms from Nazi Germany. His leadership of Vichy France from 1940 to 1944 and his postwar conviction of treason and lifetime exile to the Ile d'Yeu made him a scapegoat for the nation. This later perception forever tainted Pétain's military reputation as a soldier who served France his entire life and led the French Army through the crucible of Verdun, the morale crisis of 1917, and on to final victory in the Great War. He was despised for his actions as an octogenarian in June 1940. With the bulk of the French Army already destroyed and Paris itself wide-open to attack, Pétain, then eighty-four, immediately sought an armistice with Germany to halt further bloodshed. While others fled, Pétain took what he considered the braver course by staying and doing what he could to safeguard the remnants of his army and his nation. So began his descent into collaboration, treason, and the destruction of all that he had accomplished and stood for throughout his life.
Author : John Laughland
Publisher : Peter Lang Limited, International Academic Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A History of Political Trials written by John Laughland and published by Peter Lang Limited, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 2008 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a formidable and well-documented counterblast to a developing modern orthodoxy, expressing a point of view that many readers will not even have suspected existed, let alone read."--Anthony Daniels, Spectator "A useful and controversial contribution to the debate about victor's justice, and a valuable warning that international war crimes tribunals need to operate with precision and care."--Jonathan Steele, Guardian The rapid development of the use of international courts and tribunals to try heads of state for genocide and other crimes against humanity has been welcomed by most people, because they think that the establishment of international tribunals and courts to try notorious dictators represents a triumph of law over impunity. In A History of Political Trials, John Laughland takes a very different and controversial view, namely that political trials are inherently against the rule of law and almost always involve the abuse of process, as well as being seriously hypocritical. By means of detailed consideration of the trials of figures as disparate as Charles I, Louis XVI, Erich Honecker and Saddam Hussein, Laughland shows that the guilt of the accused has always been assumed in advance, that the judges are never impartial, that the process is always unfair and biased in favor of the prosecution, that the defense is not permitted to use all the arguments at its disposal, and that often the accusers have done exactly what they accuse the defence of having done. All the trials he recounts were marked by arbitrariness and injustice, often gross injustice. Although the chapters are short and easy to read, they are the fruit of formidable erudition and wide reading. The general reader will be forced by this book to re-examine the ideas on this subject, and will be much less sanguine about the possibility of bringing dictators and other leaders to genuine justice. John Laughland lives in Bath and is an author, journalist, and has been a university lecturer in France. He has published The Tainted Source: The Undemocratic Origins of the European Idea (Time Warner Paperbacks) and has written for the Spectator, he Economist, and The New York Times . Table of Contents Introduction The Trial of Charles I and the Last Judgement The Trial of Louis XVI and the Terror War Guilt after World War I Defeat in the Dock: the Riom Trial Justice as Purge: Marshal Peacute;tain faces his Accusers Treachery on Trial: the Case of Vidkun Quisling Nuremberg : Making War Illegal Creating Legitimacy: the Trial of Marshal Antonescu Ethnic Cleansing and National Cleansing in Czechoslovakia, 19451947 Peoplers"s Justice in Liberated Hungary From Mass Execution to Amnesty and Pardon: Postwar Trials in Bulgaria, Finland, and Greece Politics as Conspiracy: the Tokyo Trials The Greek Colonels, the Emperor Bokassa, and the Argentine Generals: Transitional Justice, 19752007 Revolution Returns: the Trial of Nicolae Ceausescu A State on Trial: Erich Honecker in Moabit Jean Kambanda, Convicted without Trial Kosovo and the New World Order: the Trial of Slobodan Miloscaron;evic Regime Change and the Trial of Saddam Hussein Conclusion Notes Bibliography and Further Reading Index
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