LEADER 03246nam 22006375 450 001 9910483340103321 005 20230810163628.0 010 $a9783030039554 010 $a3030039552 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-03955-4 035 $a(CKB)4100000007598558 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-03955-4 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5667402 035 $a(Perlego)3493033 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000007598558 100 $a20190201d2019 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Fall of France in the Second World War $eHistory and Memory /$fby Richard Carswell 205 $a1st ed. 2019. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2019. 215 $a1 online resource (IX, 283 p. 1 illus.) 311 08$a9783030039547 311 08$a3030039544 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 $aGreat Britain$xHistory 606 $aFrance$xHistory 606 $aEurope$xHistory$x1492- 606 $aMilitary history 606 $aHistory of World War II and the Holocaust 606 $aHistory of Britain and Ireland 606 $aHistory of France 606 $aHistory of Modern Europe 606 $aMilitary History 615 0$aWorld War, 1939-1945. 615 0$aGreat Britain$xHistory. 615 0$aFrance$xHistory. 615 0$aEurope$xHistory$x1492-. 615 0$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$aMilitary History. 676 $a940.53 676 $a944.0816 700 $aCarswell$b Richard$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01228578 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910483340103321 996 $aThe Fall of France in the Second World War$92852253 997 $aUNINA