The first and only scholarly book in English about the French
Navy during the reign of the Vichy government, "The Cyrano Fleet"
is a revisionist study presenting the French version of the events
of 1940 through 1942. Captain Koburger's use of French sources has
allowed him to put forth evidence that contradicts and often
corrects our understanding of this complex period of French
maritime history. In particular, he attacks the Anglo-American
conception of the Vichy navy as fascist'. His findings shed new
light on the often strained relations between NATO and the French
armed forces. This carefully researched book will interest students
and scholars of twentieth century history, political science,
foreign affairs, and military studies.
It is now half a century since the Allies--the Grand Alliance of
the Second World War--managed one way or another to destroy
France's Navy. This Navy had been first an important ally, then a
neutral force, and finally the instrument of its own destruction.
It is now about time that we re-examined the record, and finally
took steps to set it straight? So writes Captain Koburger in the
introduction to "The Cyrano Fleet," a book that, all these years
later, sets the record straight about the Vichy French Navy.
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