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When France Fell: The Vichy Crisis and the Fate of the Anglo-American Alliance

by Michael Neiberg

Shocked by the fall of France in 1940, panicked US leaders rushed to back the Vichy government—a fateful decision that nearly destroyed the Anglo–American alliance. According to US Secretary of War Henry Stimson, the “most shocking single event” of World War II was not the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, but rather the fall of France in spring 1940.

Publisher

Harvard University Press

Publication date

2021

Format

Print edition

Pages

320

ISBN

9780674258563