France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain

Format: Hardcover Language: English ISBN: 0674248899 ISBN13: 9780674248892 Release Date: August 2023 Publisher: Belknap Press Length: 480 Pages Weight: 1.87 lbs. Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.2" x 9.4" A Telegraph, Spectator, Prospect, and Times Best Book of the Year "Enthralling."―Geoffrey Wheatcroft, New York Review of Books "This is a story not just about P tain but about war and resistance, the moral compromises of leadership, and the meaning of France itself."―Margaret MacMillan For three weeks in July 1945 all eyes were fixed on Paris, where France's former head of state was on trial. Would Philippe P tain, hero of Verdun, be condemned as the traitor of Vichy? In the terrible month of October 1940, few things were more shocking than the sight of Marshal Philippe P tain--supremely decorated hero of the First World War, now head of the French government--shaking hands with Hitler. Pausing to look at the cameras, P tain announced that France would henceforth collaborate