The fall of France in the Second World War : history and memory /
This book examines how the fall of France in the Second World War has been recorded by historians and remembered within society. It argues that explanations of the fall have usually revolved around the four main themes of decadence, failure, constraint and contingency. It shows that the dominant exp...
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Cham, Switzerland :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- Premonitions and predictions
- War and waiting
- Trauma and treason
- Divine punishment and decadence
- Failures and constraints
- Contingencies and consequences
- Memory and memorialisation