Defeat and Division launches a definitive new account of France in the Second World War. In this first volume, Douglas Porch dissects France''s 1940 collapse, the dynamics of occupation, and the rise of Charles de Gaulle''s Free France crusade, culminating in the November 1942 Allied invasion of French North Africa. He captures the full sweep of France''s wartime experience in Europe, Africa, and beyond, from soldiers and POWs to civilians-in-arms, colonial subjects, and foreign refugees. He recounts France''s struggles to reconstruct military power within the context of a global conflict, with its armed forces shattered into warring factions and the country under Axis occupation. Disagreements over the causes of the 1940 debacle and the subsequent requirement for the armistice mirrored long-standing fractures in politics, society, and the French military itself, as efforts to reconstitute French military power crumbled into Vichy collaboration, De Gaulle''s exile resistance, Alsace-Mo
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Emerging from the debacle of 1940, France faced the quandary of how to rebuild military power and resuscitate its global influence. Douglas Porch charts the dynamics of la France libre, Vichy collaboration, and the swelling resistance to the Axis occupation...
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This Is Not Who We Are examines America's struggle to be good once it became an undisputed superpower. A unique and compelling insight into how a country's humanity affects us all, this book is for lovers of American history and those who look...
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<P>This volume assesses China¿s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) as it approaches its tenth year in operation. The programme has gone through a difficult transition since its inception in 2013, with an environment developing in a way utterly unanticipated...
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