The Fall of France (Magill’s Literary Annual 2004)
At a glance:
- Author: Julian Jackson
- First Published: 2003
- Type of Work: History
- Time of Work: The twentieth century
- Setting: Europe
- Principal Characters: Philippe Pétain, Pierre Laval
- Genres: Nonfiction, History
- Subjects: Politics, France or French people, Twentieth century, Europe or Europeans, 1940’s, World War II, War, World War I, Conquest, Nazism or Nazis, Germany or German people, Holocaust, Jewish, Western Europe or western Europeans, Military art or science
- Locales: France, Europe
On June 22, 1940, the French general Charles Huntziger sat opposite Adolf Hitler in a railway carriage in the forest of Compiègne. In 1918 that same French carriage and location had been the site of Germany’s capitulation in World War I. Little more than two decades later, the tables were turned. The contrast, however, was not only that the Germans had supplanted the French as victors but also that the military conflict between these powers had been very different.
In the grim trench warfare of World War I, French and German forces had battled each other for four years. In...
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