Petain - Verdun to Vichy

Informationen zum Autor Robert B. Bruce is an associate professor of history at Sam Houston State University where he specializes in European military history with a particular emphasis on World War I, World War II, and the Napoleonic Wars. He is the author of A Fraternity of Arms: America & France in the Great War, which won the Tomlinson Prize from the Western Front Association for the best book on World War I. He lives in The Woodlands, Texas. Klappentext With the bulk of the French Army already destroyed and Paris itself wide-open to attack! Petain! then eighty-four! immediately sought an armistice with Germany to halt further bloodshed. While others fled! Petain took what he considered the braver course by staying and doing what he could to safeguard the remnants of his army and his nation. So began his descent into collaboration! treason! and the destruction of all that he had accomplished and stood for throughout his life. Zusammenfassung Few figures in modern French history have aroused more controversy than Marshal Philippe Pétain, who rose from obscurity to great fame in the First World War only to fall into infamy during the dark days of Nazi occupation in World War II.

Product details

• Authors: Robert B Bruce, Robert B. Bruce
• Publisher: Potomac Books Inc
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2008
• EAN: 9781574885989
• ISBN: 978-1-57488-598-9
• No. of pages: 150
• Dimensions: 133 mm x 216 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Potomac's Military Profiles (H; Military Profiles; Potomac's Military Profiles (H
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration