France and the origins of the Second World War
By: Robert J. Young.
Series: The Making of the 20th century
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 -- Causes; France -- Politics and government -- 1914-1940
Description: Young first describes the tensions within French interwar diplomacy as well as the interpretive tensions which have characterised the scholarly debate over the past fifty years. Subsequent chapters explore the roots of the national ambivalence: diplomatic and military, political and ideological, economic and psychological. In the end, we are left with the author's explanation of how France entered the second World War, and why she collapsed so quickly.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-185) and index.