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200 14$aThe Fall of France in the Second World War$b[electronic resource] $eHistory and Memory /$fby Richard Carswell
205   $a1st ed. 2019.
210  1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2019.
215   $a1 online resource (IX, 283 p. 1 illus.)
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327   $aChapter One: Introduction -- Chapter Two: Premonitions and Predictions -- Chapter Three: War and Waiting -- Chapter Four: Trauma and Treason -- Chapter Five: Divine Punishment and Decadence -- Chapter Six: Failures and Constraints -- Chapter Seven: Contingencies and Consequences -- Chapter Eight: Memory and Memorialisation -- Chapter Nine: Conclusions.
330   $aThis 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.
606   $aWorld War, 1939-1945
606   $aGreat Britain?History
606   $aFrance?History
606   $aEurope?History?1492-
606   $aMilitary history
606   $aHistory of World War II and the Holocaust$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/717110
606   $aHistory of Britain and Ireland$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/717020
606   $aHistory of France$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/717040
606   $aHistory of Modern Europe$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/717080
606   $aHistory of Military$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/721000
615  0$aWorld War, 1939-1945.
615  0$aGreat Britain?History.
615  0$aFrance?History.
615  0$aEurope?History?1492-.
615  0$aMilitary history.
615 14$aHistory of World War II and the Holocaust.
615 24$aHistory of Britain and Ireland.
615 24$aHistory of France.
615 24$aHistory of Modern Europe.
615 24$aHistory of Military.
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