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Author : Pierre Laval
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (38 download)
Download or read book The Diary of Pierre Laval written by Pierre Laval and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Pétain-Laval written by and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. Kenneth Brody
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351297740
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)
Download or read book The Trial of Pierre Laval written by J. Kenneth Brody and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a stunning work combining historical memory, legal ambiguity, and profound issues of justice, J. Kenneth Brody provides a picture of France in World War II that continues to haunt the present. Architect in 1940 of Marshal Petain's Vichy French regime and its prime minister from April 1942 to August 1944, at war's end Pierre Laval was promptly arrested on charges of treason. This book tells the story of his trial. Did he betray France, or did he serve France under terrible circumstances? What was the truth of "collaboration"? This book considers the pretrial proceedings, or lack thereof, the evidence, and the arguments of the prosecution, as well as Laval's vigorous defense in the early days of the trial. Because of irregularities in the preliminary proceedings, Laval's defense counsel declined from the outset to participate in the trial. For those reasons and because of the prejudicial conduct of the prosecution, on the third day of the trial, Pierre Laval also declined to participate further. What his defense might have been in a normal pre-trial proceeding and in a fair trial are matters of conjecture. What remains clear is that political trials are a unique form of law and moral judgment. Trials and history share a common goal-the truth. Trial, judgment, and appeal are intended to produce finality. History, on the other hand, is never final. After its performance in the trial of Pierre Laval, the government of France continued its policy of concealment, even though the truth could no longer determine the outcome of the trial. Slowly, by persistence, courage, and loyalty, history's claims to truth were established. This book presents the defense that might have been presented and then relates the final judgment, its grisly execution only eleven days after the trial opened, and its aftermath.
Author : Hubert Cole
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Laval written by Hubert Cole and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the life of one of the most controversial figures of the World War and the events which led to his execution as traitor to his country.
Author : Nicholas Atkin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317897986
Total Pages : 253 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 253 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 : Geoffrey Warner
Publisher : London : Eyre & Spottiswoode
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Pierre Laval and the Eclipse of France written by Geoffrey Warner and published by London : Eyre & Spottiswoode. This book was released on 1968 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
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Author : Philippe Pétain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 57 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (54 download)
Download or read book Pétain - Laval. The Conspiracy ... [By Pierre Comert.] Translated by Michael Sadleir written by Philippe Pétain and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : René de Chambrun
Publisher : Hoover Institution Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book France During the German Occupation, 1940-1944 written by René de Chambrun and published by Hoover Institution Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 72 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 : 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 : Henri Philippe Benoni Omer Joseph Pétain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (761 download)
Download or read book Pétain - Laval: the Conspiracy ... written by Henri Philippe Benoni Omer Joseph Pétain and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Julian Jackson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191622885
Total Pages : 682 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book France: The Dark Years, 1940-1944 written by Julian Jackson and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2003-03-05 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The French call them 'the Dark Years'... This definitive new history of Occupied France explores the myths and realities of four of the most divisive years in French history. Taking in ordinary people's experiences of defeat, collaboration, resistance, and liberation, it uncovers the conflicting memories of occupation which ensure that even today France continues to debate the legacy of the Vichy years.
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
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 587 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (221 download)
Download or read book France During the German Occupation, 1940-1944 written by and published by . This book was released on 1959* with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert B. Bruce
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1574885987
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (748 download)
Download or read book Petain written by Robert B. Bruce and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2008-09 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzes the military career of one of the greatest, yet controversial, French military commanders of the twentieth century
Author : Andrew Sangster
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 144389673X
Total Pages : 515 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book The Agony of France written by Andrew Sangster and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-22 with total page 515 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Agony of France is written in three parts in a thematic style to enable easy referencing both for the student of history and the general reader. The first part deals with the Defeat of France in 1940, examining scholarship over the last seventy years in order to extrapolate the major factors. The second part explores Vichy France, the political Collaboration, and the various shades of collaborationism from the criminal and dedicated to that of sheer survival. This part looks at the problems of a modern Western democratic society suffering under a military occupation, the role of the French Church during this period, and the appalling circumstances surrounding anti-Semitism. The third part explores the nature of French resistance, the role of de Gaulle, and finishes with the postwar recriminations and trials. Unlike many Anglo-Saxon histories, this book adopts a more sympathetic attitude towards the French plight, and examines the nature of de Gaulle’s myth-building that France liberated itself. The book demonstrates that historical mythology is part of every country’s history when seeking its own redemption from the past. It will be of use to the student of history, as well as a wider readership interested in the circumstances surrounding Vichy rule in France.
