Julian Jackson
Author
Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2003
Description
This new book by Julian Jackson, a leading historian of twentieth-century France, charts the breathtakingly rapid events that led to the defeat and surrender of one of the key Allied powers, setting in motion the traumatic years of the Occupation, the Vichy regime, and the rapid escalation of World War Two. - ;On 16 May 1940 an emergency meeting of the French High Command was called at the Quai d'Orsay in Paris. The German army had broken through...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2001.
Description
A history of France from 1940 to 1944, the years during which the country was occupied by German forces, examining recent research on the topics of the Resistance, the collaboration between the Germans and the Vichy government, and the actions of people at all levels of society.
Author
Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Few things shocked the world more in the terrible month of June 1940 than seeing Marshal Philippe Pétain-a highly decorated hero of the first world war-shaking hands with Hitler. Pausing to look at the cameras, he announced that France would henceforth collaborate with Germany. "This is my policy," he intoned. "My ministers are responsible to me. It is I alone who will be judged by History." Five years later, in July 1945, Pétain was put on trial...
4) De Gaulle
Author
Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
A definitive biography of the mythic general who refused to accept the Nazi domination of France, drawing on unpublished letters, memoirs, and papers in the newly opened de Gaulle archives that show how this volatile man put a broken France back at the center of world affairs. In the early summer of 1940, when France was overrun by German troops, one junior general who had fought in the trenches in Verdun refused to accept defeat. He fled to London,...
Author
Series
Trailblazer books volume 21
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c1997
Description
In 1854, after being wounded while serving as a drummer in the British army in the Crimean War, twelve-year-old Robbie Robinson is cared for by Florence Nightingale and becomes involved in her efforts to improve the medical care of the sick and wounded soldiers.