In July 1945, France's disgraced former head of state was on trial. As head of the Vichy regime, Philippe Pétain was a lightning rod for collective guilt and retribution. But he has also been a conservative icon ever since. Julian Jackson blends courtroom drama and brilliant narrative history to examine one of history's great moral dilemmas.
The poor performance of the French economy in the 1930s has long been recognised as a major contributory factor in the decline of the Third Republic. This is the first full study of the formation of economic policy in these crucial years, and of the political debate to which it gave rise.
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