Binding: Hardcover
Description: Defeat and Division launches a definitive new account of France in the Second World War. In this first volume Douglas Porch dissects France's 1940 collapse the dynamics of occupation and the rise of Charles de Gaulle's Free France crusade culminating in the November 1942 Allied invasion of French North Africa. He captures the full sweep of France's wartime experience in Europe Africa and beyond from soldiers and PO Ws to civilians - in - arms colonial subjects and foreign refugees. He recounts France's struggles to reconstruct military power within the context of a global conflict with its armed forces shattered into warring factions and the country under Axis occupation. Disagreements over the causes of the 1940 debacle and the subsequent requirement for the armistice mirrored long - standing fractures in politics society and the French military itself as efforts to reconstitute French military power crumbled into Vichy collaboration De Gaulle's exile resistance Alsace - Moselle occupation struggles and a scuffle for imperial supremacy.
Title: Defeat And Division France At War 1939 - 1942
Author(s): Porch Douglas (Naval Postgraduate School Monterey California)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Barcode: 9781107047464
Pages: 742 Pages
Publication Date: 8/25/2022
Series: Armies of the Second World War
Category: Military History