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England's Last War Against France - Fighting Vichy 1940-42 (Paperback)
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England's Last War Against France - Fighting Vichy 1940-42 (Paperback)
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List price R478
Loot Price R431
Discovery Miles 4 310
You Save R47 (10%)
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Genuinely new story of the Second World War - the full account of
England's last war against France in 1940-42. Most people think
that England's last war with France involved point-blank broadsides
from sailing ships and breastplated Napoleonic cavalry charging
red-coated British infantry. But there was a much more recent
conflict than this. Under the terms of its armistice with Nazi
Germany, the unoccupied part of France and its substantial colonies
were ruled from the spa town of Vichy by the government of Marshal
Philip Petain. Between July 1940 and November 1942, while Britain
was at war with Germany, Italy and ultimately Japan, it also fought
land, sea and air battles with the considerable forces at the
disposal of Petain's Vichy French. When the Royal Navy sank the
French Fleet at Mers El-Kebir almost 1,300 French sailors died in
what was the twentieth century's most one-sided sea battle. British
casualties were nil. It is a wound that has still not healed, for
undoubtedly these events are better remembered in France than in
Britain. An embarrassment at the time, France's maritime massacre
and the bitter, hard-fought campaigns that followed rarely make
more than footnotes in accounts of Allied operations against Axis
forces. Until now.
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