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

France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain

Julian Jackson

480 pages first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective medium-paced
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For three weeks in July 1945 all eyes were fixed on a humid Paris, where France's disgraced former head of state was on trial, accused of masterminding a plot to overthrow democracy. Would Philippe Pétain, hero of Verdun, be condemned as the trait...

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