- List of Illustrations
- Map: Pétain’s last journeys
- Acknowledgements
- Dramatis Personae
- Introduction: The Fateful Handshake
- I. Before the Trial
- 1. The Last Days of Vichy
- 2. A Castle in Germany
- 3. Paris after Liberation
- 4. Pétain’s Return
- 5. Preparing the Trial
- 6. Interrogating the Prisoner
- II. In the Courtroom
- 7. France Waits
- 8. First Day in Court
- 9. Republican Ghosts
- 10. Debating the Armistice
- 11. The Defence Fights Back
- 12. Last Witnesses for the Prosecution
- 13. ‘You Will Not Make Me Say That the Marshal is a Traitor’
- 14. The Pierre Laval Show
- 15. Generals and Bureaucrats
- 16. The Absent Jews
- 17. The Count, the Assassin and the Blind General
- 18. Réquisitoire and Plaidoiries
- 19. The Verdict
- III. Afterlives
- 20. The Prisoner
- 21. Vichy Emerges from the Catacombs
- 22. Keepers of the Flame
- 23. Memory Wars
- 24. Remembering the Jews
- 25. Judging Pétain Today
- Epilogue: On the Pétain Trail
- Notes
- Sources
- Index
France on Trial
The Case of Marshal Pétain
Product Details
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$35.00 • £30.95 • €31.95
ISBN 9780674248892
Publication Date: 08/22/2023
480 pages
6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches
44 photos, 1 map, 1 table
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