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Published in: Society 5/2023

28-09-2023 | BOOK REVIEW

Julian Jackson, France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain

Allen Lane, 2023, 480 pp., ISBN: 978-0241450253

Author: Robert Gildea

Published in: Society | Issue 5/2023

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At 4 a.m. on Wednesday 15 August 1945, Philippe Pétain, victor of Verdun, Marshal of France, head of the French State based at Vichy between 1940 and 1944, was sentenced to death by the Haute Cour in Paris. “Taking account of the great age of the accused”, the verdict nevertheless added, “the Haute Cour expresses the wish that the judgement be not carried out” (p. 274). …
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Footnotes
1
Robert Gildea, Marianne in Chains. In Search of the German Occupation, 1940-1945 (London: Macmillan, 2002), pp. 391–392.
 
Metadata
Title
Julian Jackson, France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain
Allen Lane, 2023, 480 pp., ISBN: 978-0241450253
Author
Robert Gildea
Publication date
28-09-2023
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Society / Issue 5/2023
Print ISSN: 0147-2011
Electronic ISSN: 1936-4725
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-023-00909-x

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