The French defeat of 1940
Subtitle: reassessments
By: edited by Joel Blatt.
Contributors: Blatt, Joel.
Publisher: Berghahn
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 372
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Western Front.; World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- France.; France -- History -- 1914-1940.
Notes: Originally published: 1998.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Joel Blatt; title: Strategy and scapegoatism : reflections on the French national catastrophe, 1940 / Nicole Jordan; title: Marc Bloch and the drôle de guerre : prelude to the "strange defeat" / Carole Fink; title: Martyrs' vengeance : memory, trauma, and fear of war in France, 1918-1940 / Omer Bartov; title: Domestic politics and the fall of France in 1940 / William D. Irvine; title: Edouard Daladier : the conduct of the war and the beginnings of defeat / Elisabeth du Reáu; title: The missed opportunity : French refugee policy in wartime, 1939-1940 / Vicki Caron.; title: Prelude to defeat : Franco-Soviet relatons, 1919-1939 / Michael Jabara Carley; title: France and the illusion of American support, 1919-1940 / William R. Keylor; title: In the eye of the beholder : the cultural representation of France and Germany by The New York Times, 1939-1940 / Robert J. Young; title: Reflections on France, Britain and the winter war prodrome, 1939-1940 / John C. Cairns; title: "Fighting to the last Frenchman"? Reflections on the BEF deployment to France and the strains in the Franco-British alliance, 1939-1940 / Martin S. Alexander.; title: French defeat in 1940 and its reversal in 1944-1945 : the Deuxième Division Blindée / Philip Farwell Bankwitz; title: The trauma of 1940 : a disaster and its traces / Stanley Hoffmann.