Vichy''s Double Bind - French Collaboration Between Hitler Mussolini During Second World

Informationen zum Autor Karine Varley is Lecturer in French and European History at the University of Strathclyde, having previously lectured at Durham University and the University of Edinburgh. She is a graduate of the Universities of Cambridge, Leeds and Royal Holloway, London. She has published widely on nineteenth- and twentieth-century European history, including Under the Shadow of Defeat: The War of 1870–71 in French Memory (2008) and (ed. with Marco Maria Aterrano), A Fascist Decade of War: 1935–1945 in International Perspective ( 2020). Her research has been supported by grants from the British Academy, Carnegie Trust and Royal Society of Edinburgh. Klappentext "Vichy's Double Bind advances a significant new interpretation of French collaboration during the Second World War. Arguing that the path to collaboration involved not merely Nazi Germany but Fascist Italy, it suggests that the Vichy French government was caught in a double bind, between the irreconcilable positions of the two Axis governments"-- Zusammenfassung Vichy's Double Bind advances a significant new interpretation of French collaboration during the Second World War. Arguing that the path to collaboration involved not merely Nazi Germany but Fascist Italy, it suggests that the Vichy French government was caught in a double bind, between the irreconcilable positions of the two Axis governments. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Part I. Diplomacy and Politics: 1. Sowing the Seeds: From the Abyssinia Crisis to the Armistice; 2. Pivoting Between Alignments: July to December 1940; 3. Playing Rome against Berlin: December 1940 to March 1942; 4. Compliance and Defiance: April 1942 to September 1943; 5. The Absence of Collaborationism; Part II. Local Encounters: 6. The Menace Within: July 1940 to November 1942; 7. Annexation by Stealth: Italian Occupation from June 1940 to November 1942; 8. Confronting Italian Occupation: November 1942 to September 1943; Conclusion; Bibliography....

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• Authors: Karine Varley, Karine (University of Strathclyde) Varley, Varley Karine
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.2023
• EAN: 9781009368292
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0936829-2
• No. of pages: 230
• Series: New Studies in European Histor; New Studies in European History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; France, European History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, HISTORY / Europe / France, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Europe / Italy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, International Relations, Italy, Fascism & Nazism, Second World War, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Far-right political ideologies and movements, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), 1918–1943 (Italian post-war and Fascist period), History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / European Theater