The Fall of France 1940

by Shennan; Andrew

• ISBN13: 9780582290822
• ISBN10: 0582290821
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2000-11-06
• Publisher: Routledge

Table of Contents

Series Editor's Preface	vii
Author's Preface	ix
Author's Acknowledgements	xiii
Publisher's Acknowledgements	xiv
Prologue: May--June 1940: fragments and impressions	1	(1)
Military collapse	1	(5)
Civilian exodus	6	(3)
Explanations and recriminations	9	(5)
Next steps	14	(13)
PART ONE: THE POLITICS OF DEFEAT
Expectations	27	(20)
Assumptions of victory	28	(7)
Intimations of defeat	35	(5)
``The most ghastly of confirmations''	40	(7)
Post-defeat politics: impotence and improvisation	47	(17)
The realities of dependence	48	(3)
Vichy claims	51	(2)
The constitutional revolution of July 10	53	(4)
Gaullist counter-claims	57	(7)
Vichy, resistance, and the lessons of defeat	64	(23)
The National Revolution	64	(6)
The Riom trial	70	(5)
Resistance and Free French perspectives on 1939--40	75	(12)
1940 after Liberation	87	(28)
The resurfacing of the defeat	87	(2)
The postwar purge: Riom redux?	89	(5)
The defeat in Liberation politics	94	(3)
The commission of enquiry	97	(4)
The defeat in Fourth Republic politics	101	(14)
PART TWO: THE DEFEAT IN HISTORY
The short term: aftermath	115	(20)
Continuity and change under the Occupation	116	(2)
A nation fragmented and reconstituted	118	(7)
A future lost and regained	125	(3)
The victims of defeat	128	(7)
The medium term: transitions	135	(21)
Roads to 1945: France and Britain compared	137	(4)
Complexities of the French transition	141	(7)
1938--1948: full cycle?	148	(8)
The long term: legacies	156	(13)
1940 eclipsed: the national view	156	(5)
``Fulcrum of the twentieth century'': an international view	161	(3)
The fable of defeat and renewal	164	(5)
Further Reading	169	(8)
The phony war and the defeat	169	(1)
The causes of defeat	170	(1)
Crisis of the 1930s	171	(1)
Vichy and the Resistance	172	(2)
Liberation and beyond	174	(3)
Index	177