The Fall of France: The Nazi Invasion of 1940 (Making of the Modern World) by Julian Jackson

The Fall of France: The Nazi Invasion of 1940 (Making of the Modern World)



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The Fall of France: The Nazi Invasion of 1940 (Making of the Modern World) Julian Jackson
Language: English
Page: 293
Format: pdf
ISBN: 0192805509, 9780192805508
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

From Publishers Weekly

In his thorough monograph, University of Swansea historian Jackson (The Dark Years) begins with pre-war developments-French military innovations and battle strategy; Germany's plan to invade Belgium and France-before recounting the German breakthrough and defeat of British and French forces in May 1940. The second chapter opens with General Weygand taking command of the French army later that month, then provides background on France's position in Europe before the war, particularly its relations with Great Britain: the failure of attempted British-French-Soviet alliance in early 1939, and the so-called Phony War on the western front September 1939-April 1940. He tracks French attempts to halt the German onslaught and the evacuation of Allied troops from Dunkirk, leading to the June 1940 surrender, then cuts back to analyze French internal politics during the 1930s and its effect on French foreign policy. Another chapter gets devoted to the French people circa 1940, including pacifist society following World War I; soldiers' reactions to the German invasion and recollections of the mass exodus of WWI refugees from the advancing Germans are also covered. The final chapters provide a historiography of the campaign itself and the effects of the defeat on France, focusing on the collaborationist Vichy government that followed the defeat, the rise of De Gaulle's movement, and a treatment of how the defeat is viewed today. Designed for the academic rather than the casual reader, this presentation is careful and measured, and seems likely to find its way onto college history syllabi.
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Review


"Once in a while a book comes along with an analysis of the past that so strongly resonates with the present that it is as if the two are fused.... Mr. Jackson shows that France was better prepared and better led than either was Britain in 1940 or than France itself had been in 1914. France's military defeat and Britain's survival and ultimate triumph were not due to innate, cultural defects in the French character. Geography meant France was attacked first: it lacked time and lacked the channel.... And the alliance between France and Britain never recovered. As Mr. Jackson's book shows, sometimes events on the ground can move very fast, but history takes its own time."--Rupert Barwall, Wall Street Journal


"France's sudden and shocking defeat in May of 1940 was one of the great calamities in the history of Western democracy.... Jackson assesses the social and political, and also the diplomatic, intelligence, and military, context of the catastrophe.... His book is the best introduction to it.... An admirably accessible analytical history of a complex and fraught event."--Atlantic Monthly


"Jackson's book tells in gripping detail the military, human and political story of a few crucial weeks whose ramifications for European relations for decades afterwards were enormous.... More than a military history, this sharply written account is also an elegy for a fading culture in which we all have a stake."--Financial Times


"A brilliant and authoritative book, compellingly written and persuasive in its explanation of one of the most puzzling events in 20th-century history. Impossible to put down.' Richard Evans, Cambridge University'A fine, powerful and very readable book. Jackson brings a freshness and sharpness to the discussion, with the reader being drawn straight into the action and atmosphere."--Robert Gildea, Oxford University


"Jackson's account is vivid...His conclusions are reinforced by some intriguing analysis--and an ingenious study of counterfactuals--e.g.what would have happened had the United Kingdom been in France's place?"--Stanley Hoffman for Foreign Affairs


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