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Author : Richard Griffiths
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Pétain; a Biography of Marshal Philippe Pétain of Vichy written by Richard Griffiths and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Griffiths
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571279090
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (712 download)
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 : Robert Bowman Bruce
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1612340687
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (123 download)
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 : Charles Williams
Publisher : Abacus
ISBN 13 : 9780349115627
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (156 download)
Download or read book Petain written by Charles Williams and published by Abacus. This book was released on 2007-05 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Williams' major biography of Philippe Petain (1856-1951) tells of a peasant who became a Marshal of France and the Head of the Vichy State. A slow climb up the army ranks was leading inexorably to retirement when war broke out. He defended Verdun in 1916 and settled the mutinies in 1917. In May 1940, he realised that France had been defeated and requested an armistice. As head of unoccupied France, he jockeyed between Nazis, Allies and Vichy politicians until, in 1945, he returned to France to be tried for treason. His death sentence was commuted by General de Gaulle to life imprisonment. In recounting Petain's long life, Lord Williams, one of our most notable political biographers, has successfully illustrated the character of an extraordinary man.
Author : Richard Griffiths
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (133 download)
Download or read book Pétain; a Biography of Marshall Philippe Pétain of Vichy written by Richard Griffiths and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 : Robert O. Paxton
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0804154104
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Vichy France written by Robert O. Paxton and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2015-02-18 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Julian Jackson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674248899
Total Pages : 481 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 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In July 1945, France's disgraced former head of state was on trial. As head of the Vichy regime, Philippe Pétain was a lightning rod for collective guilt and retribution. But he has also been a conservative icon ever since. Julian Jackson blends courtroom drama and brilliant narrative history to examine one of history's great moral dilemmas.
Author : Richard Griffiths
Publisher : Trans-Atlantic Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780094738102
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (381 download)
Download or read book Marshal Pétain written by Richard Griffiths and published by Trans-Atlantic Publications. This book was released on 1994 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Williams
Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
ISBN 13 : 9781403970114
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Pétain written by Charles Williams and published by Palgrave MacMillan. This book was released on 2005 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A portrait of the controversial French army commander-in-chief who surrendered France's Jewish population to Nazi occupiers describes Ptain's youth as an orphan peasant and identifies the determining factors behind his decisions. By the author of The Last Great Frenchman: A Life of General de Gaulle.
Author : Olivier Wieviorka
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674032613
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (326 download)
Download or read book Orphans of the Republic written by Olivier Wieviorka and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On July 10, 1940, by a 570 to 80 margin, the representatives in the French parliament voted full powers to Philippe Pétain, ending the Third Republic and paving the way for the Vichy regime. Recreating the tense atmosphere of summer 1940, Olivier Wieviorka shows how pressures brought on by defeat could affect even the most hardened republicans.
Author : Herbert R. Lottman
Publisher : New York : W. Morrow
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Pétain, Hero Or Traitor written by Herbert R. Lottman and published by New York : W. Morrow. This book was released on 1985 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Henri Philippe Benoni Omer Joseph Pétain (24 April 1856? 23 July 1951), generally known as Philippe Pétain (French: [fi.lip pe.t̃]) or Marshal Pétain (Maréchal Pétain) or The Lion of Verdun, was a French general who reached the distinction of Marshal of France, and was later Chief of State of Vichy France (Chef de l'État Français), from 1940 to 1944. Pétain, who was 84 years old in 1940, ranks as France's oldest head of state."--Wikipedia.
Author : Jean Raymond Tournoux
Publisher : Viking Adult
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Sons of France: Pétain and De Gaulle written by Jean Raymond Tournoux and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 1966 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephen Ryan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781460222720
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (227 download)
Download or read book Petain the Soldier written by Stephen Ryan and published by . This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Petain the Soldier is the military biography of Marshal Philippe Petain, showing his impact on French military policy during two World Wars. An account of the strategic planning and tactical problems experienced by the French military establishment during the first half of the twentieth century."
Author : Robert O. Paxton
Publisher : W. W. Norton
ISBN 13 : 9780393007947
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (79 download)
Download or read book Vichy France written by Robert O. Paxton and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1975 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Philip Guedalla
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786254891
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (862 download)
Download or read book The Two Marshals: Bazaine & Pétain written by Philip Guedalla and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant study of France and French military power through four generations. The careers of the two Marshalls span the years from Napoleon’s downfall to Verdun and Vichy France. “This biography of two soldiers of France is, in effect, a history of the French Army for a hundred years, as well as portraiture of marked differences and striking contrasts. There are strong touches of irony and emphasis in Bazaine’s life and army career, his strength, and innocence in face of public blame following the surrender at Metz in 1870 — and Pétain’s, whose weakness and mediocrity contrast baldly with his predecessor. “The first Marshal was made a scapegoat by his defeated country, and when the second Marshal came to power, the scapegoat was France”. The elaborate sketching of background material, the bird’s eye views of each successive era in French history provide a three-dimensional setting for each man. Bazaine’s is a more thorough characterization, for Petain’s seems more often guesswork and speculation through lack of early factual material. However there is justice and judgement in this study of “the psychology of defeat” and Guedalla’s lively style and personal approach to his subjects is good reading.”-Kirkus Reviews
Author : Paul Webster
Publisher : Pan Macmillan Adult MM
ISBN 13 : 9780330487856
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (878 download)
Download or read book Pétain's Crime written by Paul Webster and published by Pan Macmillan Adult MM. This book was released on 2001 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the role of Marechal Philippe Petain in the persecution and mass murder of Jews under the Vichy government. It provides an account of this national hero and saviour, whose complicity was long hidden in secrecy.
