The Resistance versus Vichy
Subtitle: the purge of collaborators in liberated France.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 1968
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 -- Collaborationists -- France; Criminal justice, Administration of -- France
Description: "Vichy France, officially the French State (État français), was France during the regime of Marshal Philippe Pétain, during World War II, from the German victory in the Battle of France (July 1940) to the Allied liberation in August 1944. Following the defeat in June 1940, President Albert Lebrun appointed Marshal Pétain as Premier of France. After making peace with Germany, Pétain and his government voted to reorganize the discredited Third Republic into an authoritarian regime."--Wikipedia.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 225-236.