When Marshal Pétain set up his government at Bordeaux on June 16, the British Government certainly entertained many misgivings. But it did not challenge the right of the new régime to represent the ...

France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain; By Julian Jackson; Belknap Press; 480 pp., $35.00 In October 1940, following a sharp and painful defeat to the Nazi Wehrmacht over the summer, Pétain shook ...

Mass-demonstrations protesting the deportation of Jews from unoccupied France to Nazi-held territories in Eastern Europe broke out today in Vichy, Marseilles, Nice, and several other cities in the ...

Almost 50 years ago, Robert Paxton published his influential “Vichy France: Old Guard and New Order, 1940-1944.” The book awakened readers to the shock of how close France came to becoming an ...