Table of Contents
Preface
Joel Blatt
Introduction
Joel Blatt
Chapter 1. Strategy and Scapegoatism: Reflections on the French National Catastrophe, 1940
Nicole Jordan
Chapter 2. Marc Bloch and the drôle de guerre: Prelude to the "Strange Defeat"
Carole Fink
Chapter 3. Martyr's Vengenance: Memory, Trauma, and Fear of War in France, 1918-1940
Omer Bartov
Chapter 4. Domestic Politics and the Fall of France in 1940
William I. Irvine
Chapter 5. Edouard Daladier: The Conduct of the War and the Beginnigns of Defeat
Elisabeth du Réau
Chapter 6. The Missed Opportunity: French Refugee Policy in Wartime, 1939-1940
Vicki Caron
Chapter 7. Prelude to Defeat: Franco-Soviet Relations, 1919-1939
Michael Jabara Carley
Chapter 8. France and the Illusion of American SUpport, 1919-1940
William R. Keylor
Chapter 9. In the Eye of the Beholder: The Cultural Representation of France and Germany by The New York Times, 1939-1940
Robert J. Young
Chapter 10. Reflections on France, Britain and the Winter War Prodrome, 1939-1940
John C. Cairns
Chapter 11. "Fighting to the Last Frenchman"? Reflections on the BEF Development to France and the Strains in the Franco-British Alliance, 1939-1940
Martin S. ALexander
Chapter 12. French Defeat in 1940 and its Reversal in 1944-1945: The Deuxième Division Blindée
Philip Farwell Bankwitz
Chapter 13. The Trauma of 1940: A Disaster and its Traces
Stanley Hoffmann
Bibliography
Index
