Vichy in the Tropics: Petains National Revolution in Madagascar, Guadeloupe, and Indochina, 1940-44
by Eric T. Jennings
Category: History

Winner of the 2001 Alf Andrew Heggoy Prize of the French Colonial Historical Society This book examines the role of the Vichy regime in bringing about profound changes in the French colonial empire. It argues that Vichy contributed to postwar decolonization by introducing an ideology based on a new, harsher, brand of colonization.