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  • A historiographical work already old but of major importance  

    Vichy France, 1940-1944 (Paperback)
    Vichy France Robert Paxton is rightly regarded as a classic of historiography. This book was published in French for the first time in 1972, and the second edition is the one currently available in the collection Point History and corresponds to the
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  • Vichy France  

    Vichy France, 1940-1944 (Paperback)
    excellent book, well documented on this dark period of our history. nothing like a foreign historian for the truth to come without jargon.
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  • When Paxton invented Vichy  

    Vichy France, 1940-1944 (Paperback)
    Robert O.Paxton, Virginian origin, arrived in Paris in 1960, the same year as Beate Klasfeld. One and the other will revise the memory found in libraries. Paxton, who has encountered the same banned Paris that French historians, operates the German a
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  • France WW2 - very good summary  

    Vichy France, 1940-1944 (Paperback)
    A book of great interest on this cloudy and too little known period. The book reads very easily. Of course, some historians have noted some inaccuracies, but this is a reference book anyway. That's what I remember in a few sentences: - France has nev
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  • Analysis without compromise  

    Vichy France, 1940-1944 (Paperback)
    A vitriolic portrait without concession that was Vichy and "men". Robert Paxton is no gift but coldly analysis and evidence to support the active collaboration of Vichy. The work dates but not absolutely not aged. The preface to the paperback ed
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  • Reference 32  

    Vichy France, 1940-1944 (Paperback)
    Although quite old, this book is a reference. An exceptional analysis, it probably had to be out of the subject (or French or German) to achieve such clarity. And no need to be a specialist, this book reads very easily.
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  • Example of historical method  

    Vichy France, 1940-1944 (Paperback)
    Paxton's book released in France in 1974 breaks completely with the previous historiography which used the memories of the protagonists, their justification postwar Petain and ranked among those who had saved the most of French independence in the fa
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  • A reference to the complex subject  

    Vichy France, 1940-1944 (Paperback)
    This book by the American historian Robert O. Paxton university -published for the first time in 1972- is an amazing and disturbing work. * Disturbing because it paints a very accurate and unexpected portrait of the many players in the "French State&
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  • ABOUT TIME ON A CLEAR TROUBLE  

    Vichy France, 1940-1944 (Paperback)
    Robert Paxton has this great merit: to analyze clearly a troubled era in many ways: the complexity of events and the care that the post-war historians have to hide, to evade, consciously or not. The truth was not yet politically acceptable. Thirty ye
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  • THE END OF A LURE  

    Vichy France, 1940-1944 (Paperback)
    Robert Paxton shows collusion between an authoritarian regime, born from the ashes of the worst defeat of the armies of France and the Nazi occupiers. This encounter regime had abdicated all sovereignty to build in exchange for active collaboration,
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