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Petain
How the Hero of France Became a Convicted Traitor and Changed the Course of History
by Charles Williams
ISBN: 1403970114
ISBN-13: 9781403970114
Format: Hardcover
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"In this work of cool authority Williams...places Petain's actions and attitudes in their precise and proper context....Williams accomplishes one of the most difficult of the historian's tasks: he strips away what we know now in order to reveal what his subjects knew then." -- Benjamin Schwarz
-- Atlantic Monthly
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: St Martins Pr
Published date: 2005
Size: 6.5 x 10 inches
Weight: 0.58 pounds
Pages: 298
Publisher's Notes
A portrait of the controversial French army commander-in-chief who surrendered France's Jewish population to Nazi occupiers describes PTtain's youth as an orphan peasant and identifies the determining factors behind his decisions. By the author of The Last Great Frenchman: A Life of General de Gaulle.
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Petain: How the Hero of France
Williams, Charles
Palgrave Macmillan, 2005 Hardback. Fine/Very Good. ( more information) Offered by Murphy-Brookfield Books (United States)
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