EAN: 9783030039547

THE FALL OF FRANCE IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR - RI...

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 explanation claimed for many years that the fall was the inevitable
consequence of a society grown rotten in the inter-war period. This view has been largely
replaced among academic historians by a consensus which distinguishes between the military
defeat and the political demise of the Third Republic. It emphasizes the contingent factors
that led to the military defeat. At the same time it seeks to understand the constraints within
which France's policy-makers were required to act and the reasons for their policy-making
failures in economics  defence and diplomacy.

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