When France Fell
Subtitle: The Vichy Crisis and the Fate of the Anglo-American Alliance
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2021
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780674258563
Subjects: France, history
Description: "The fall of France in 1940 panicked US leaders, leading to their fateful decision to recognize the pro-Nazi Vichy government. Michael S. Neiberg takes readers back to the fraught early years of World War II, when America's misguided policy on Vichy alienated its British ally and ensured tensions with Charles de Gaulle and the postwar French Republic"--