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Book SynopsisFrom 1940 to 1942, French arrested many spies working for Germans and executed them despite the Vichy government's declared collaboration with the Third Reich. This book chronicles the Vichy regime's attempts to maintain sovereignty while supporting its Nazi occupiers. It also illuminates the complex agendas that characterized the collaboration.
Trade Review"The pungent details give Kitson's book a particular force: the incidents of head-shearing, the intimations of torture, the leakages back to the German authorities of the places where the spies were held, the contempt of the Vichy secret services for British agents.... All these elements make an English edition of the book a necessity." - Rod Kedward, Times Literary Supplement, on the French edition "Simon Kitson has drawn from intensive study of French archives the first full picture of Vichy's counterintelligence activities. We can now see more clearly how Vichy France tried (ultimately unsuccessfully) to collaborate with Nazi Germany as a sovereign and neutral state, master of its own territory and administration." - Robert O. Paxton, author of Vichy France: Old Guard and New Order"
