Vichy France: Old Guard and New Order, 1940 - 1944

Author: Robert O. Paxton

Condition: Good

Paperback

399 pages

Rarely spoken about these days, this history book is a classic study of the aftermath of France's sudden collapse under Nazi invasion. It uses captured German archives and other contemporary materials to construct a strong and disturbing account of the Vichy period in France. The collaborationist government of Marshal Pétain did far more than merely react to German pressures. The Vichy leaders actively pursued their own double agenda―internally, the authoritarian and racist "national revolution," and, externally, an attempt to persuade Hitler to accept this new France as a partner in his new Europe.

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