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Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize 2023
A Telegraph Book of the Year
A Times, Spectator and Prospect Book of the Year

One of the great contemporary historians of France on one of the most controversial periods of twentieth-century French history

Few images more shocked the French population during the Occupation than the photograph of Marshal Philippe Pétain - the great French hero of the First World War - shaking the hand of Hitler on 20 October 1940. In a radio speech after this meeting, Pétain told the French people that he was ''entering down the road of collaboration''. He ended with the words: ''This is my policy. My ministers are responsible to me. It is I alone who will be judged by History.'' Five years later, in July 1945, the hour of judgement - if not yet the judgement of History - arrived. Pétain was brought before a specially created High Court to answer for his conduct between the signing of the armisti

France on Trial

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Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize 2023A Telegraph Book of the YearA Times, Spectator and Prospect Book of the YearOne... Read more

    Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
    Publication Date: 1/13/2024
    ISBN13: 9780141993096, 978-0141993096
    ISBN10: 014199309X

    Non Fiction , Biography

    Description

    Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize 2023
    A Telegraph Book of the Year
    A Times, Spectator and Prospect Book of the Year

    One of the great contemporary historians of France     on one of the most controversial periods of twentieth-century French history

    Few images more shocked the French population during the Occupation than the photograph of Marshal Philippe Pétain - the great French hero of the First World War - shaking the hand of Hitler on 20 October 1940. In a radio speech after this meeting, Pétain told the French people that he was ''entering down the road of collaboration''. He ended with the words: ''This is my policy. My ministers are responsible to me. It is I alone who will be judged by History.'' Five years later, in July 1945, the hour of judgement - if not yet the judgement of History - arrived. Pétain was brought before a specially created High Court to answer for his conduct between the signing of the armisti

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