History of the Second World War, Part 7:
β Barrie Pitt (Editor)
π Library
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1973
π English
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The Fall of France in the Second World War: History and Memory
β Scribed by Richard Carswell
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing;Palgrave Macmillan
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 283
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
This book examines how the fall of France in the Second World War has been recorded by historians and remembered within society. It argues that explanations of the fall have usually revolved around the four main themes of decadence, failure, constraint and contingency. It shows that the dominant explanation claimed for many years that the fall was the inevitable consequence of a society grown rotten in the inter-war period. This view has been largely replaced among academic historians by a consensus which distinguishes between the military defeat and the political demise of the Third Republic. It emphasizes the contingent factors that led to the military defeat. At the same time it seeks to understand the constraints within which Franceβs policy-makers were required to act and the reasons for their policy-making failures in economics, defence and diplomacy.
β¦ Table of Contents
Front Matter ....Pages i-ix
Introduction (Richard Carswell)....Pages 1-17
Premonitions and Predictions (Richard Carswell)....Pages 19-47
War and Waiting (Richard Carswell)....Pages 49-68
Trauma and Treason (Richard Carswell)....Pages 69-121
Divine Punishment and Decadence (Richard Carswell)....Pages 123-159
Failures and Constraints (Richard Carswell)....Pages 161-207
Contingencies and Consequences (Richard Carswell)....Pages 209-258
Memory and Memorialisation (Richard Carswell)....Pages 259-267
Conclusions (Richard Carswell)....Pages 269-275
Back Matter ....Pages 277-283
β¦ Subjects
History; History of World War II and the Holocaust; History of Britain and Ireland; History of France; History of Modern Europe; History of Military
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