No other attempt to explain French civil and military leadership
during the 1930s has been so gracefully written, so firmly based on
archival material, or so sensitive to French conditions and
purposes as "In Command of France." It combines a detailed survey
of French foreign policy during the Nazi period with a careful
examination of France's corresponding military planning and
preparation. France was under control, the author argues, and
credits the civilian and military command with more vision, more
determination, more competence than hitherto recognized.
Young introduces the reader to some of the leading
personalities of the day--Laval, Bonnet, Weygand, Petain, Gamelin,
Delbos, Cot, Daladier--soldiers and statesmen whose names have come
close to fading from our view. He outlines the problems and
alternatives that confronted them in the Nazi years--strikes,
lockouts, unemployment, inflating prices, devalued currency--and
finds that they failed not because of an absence of policy or
incompetence but because the problems they faced were
insuperable.
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