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Petain - Verdun to Vichy (Hardcover)
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Petain - Verdun to Vichy (Hardcover)
Series: Military Profiles
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Loot Price R552
Discovery Miles 5 520
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Few figures in modern French history have aroused more controversy
than Marshal Philippe Petain, who rose from obscurity to great fame
in the First World War only to fall into infamy during the dark
days of Nazi occupation in World War II. Petain s brilliant
theories of firepower and flexible defense, as well as his deep
empathy for the soldiers of France and the horrific trials they
endured on a daily basis, mark him as one of the greatest Allied
generals of World War I. Yet today he is best remembered as the
nearly senile marshal who was handed the reins of power in France
in the midst of the disastrous 1940 campaign and tasked with
seeking terms from Nazi Germany. His leadership of Vichy France
from 1940 to 1944 and his postwar conviction of treason and
lifetime exile to the Ile d'Yeu made him a scapegoat for the
nation. This later perception forever tainted Petain s military
reputation as a soldier who served France his entire life and led
the French Army through the crucible of Verdun, the morale crisis
of 1917, and on to final victory in the Great War. He was despised
for his actions as an octogenarian in June 1940. With the bulk of
the French Army already destroyed and Paris itself wide-open to
attack, Petain, then eighty-four, immediately sought an armistice
with Germany to halt further bloodshed. While others fled, Petain
took what he considered the braver course by staying and doing what
he could to safeguard the remnants of his army and his nation. So
began his descent into collaboration, treason, and the destruction
of all that he had accomplished and stood for throughout his life.
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