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Vichy's Double Bind : French Collaboration Between Hitler and Mussolini During the Second World War by Karine Varley (2023, Hardcover)

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Vichy's Double Bind advances a significant new interpretation of French collaboration during the Second World War. Unable to resolve the conflict, Vichy sought to play the two Axis powers against each other.

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PublisherCambridge University Press

ISBN-10100936829X

ISBN-139781009368292

eBay Product ID (ePID)7059039286

Product Key Features

Book TitleVichy's Double Bind : French Collaboration between Hitler and Mussolini During the Second World War

Number of Pages230 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicWorld, Europe / General

Publication Year2023

IllustratorYes

GenreHistory

AuthorKarine Varley

Book SeriesNew Studies in European History Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Length9.3 in

Item Width6.2 in

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LCCN2022-059797

Dewey Edition23

Reviews'The book is providing an intriguing thesis on a still obscure topic of the Second World War, by underlining the fractious triangular relationship between Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and the French collaborationist regime of Vichy. By showing the French willingness to play the Axis countries against each other, it nuances our diplomatic perspective of the Vichy regime in those fateful years.' Emanuele Sica, author of Mussolini's Army in the French Riviera

Dewey Decimal940.5344

Table Of ContentIntroduction; Part I. Diplomacy and Politics: 1. Sowing the Seeds: From the Abyssinia Crisis to the Armistice; 2. Pivoting Between Alignments: July to December 1940; 3. Playing Rome against Berlin: December 1940 to March 1942; 4. Compliance and Defiance: April 1942 to September 1943; 5. The Absence of Collaborationism; Part II. Local Encounters: 6. The Menace Within: July 1940 to November 1942; 7. Annexation by Stealth: Italian Occupation from June 1940 to November 1942; 8. Confronting Italian Occupation: November 1942 to September 1943; Conclusion; Bibliography.

SynopsisVichy's Double Bind advances a significant new interpretation of French collaboration during the Second World War. Arguing that the path to collaboration involved not merely Nazi Germany but Fascist Italy, it suggests that the Vichy French government was caught in a double bind, between the irreconcilable positions of the two Axis governments., Vichy's Double Bind advances a significant new interpretation of French collaboration during the Second World War. Arguing that the path to collaboration involved not merely Nazi Germany but Fascist Italy, it suggests that the Vichy French government was caught in a double bind. On the one hand, many of the threats to France's territory, colonial empire and power came from Rome as well as Berlin. On the other, Vichy was caught between the irreconcilable yet inescapable positions of the two Axis governments. Unable to resolve the conflict, Vichy sought to play the two Axis powers against each other. By exploring French dealings with Italy at diplomatic, military and local levels in France and its colonial empire, this book reveals the multi-dimensional and multi-directional nature of Vichy's policy. It therefore challenges many enduring conceptions of collaboration with reference to Franco-German relations and offers a fresh perspective on debates about Vichy France and collaboration with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.

LC Classification NumberD802.F8V285 2023