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France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain

by Julian Jackson

For three weeks in July 1945 all eyes were fixed on a humid Paris, where France’s disgraced former head of state was on trial, accused of masterminding a plot to overthrow democracy. Would Philippe Pétain, hero of Verdun, be condemned as the traitor of Vichy?

Publisher

Harvard University Press

Publication date

2023

Format

Print edition

Pages

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ISBN

9780674248892