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<p><b>One of the great contemporary historians of France</b> <b>on one of</b> <b>the most controversial periods of twentieth-century French history</b> <p>Few images more shocked the French population during the Occupation than the photograph of Marshal Philippe Pétain - the great French hero of the First World War - shaking the hand of Hitler on 20 October 1940. In a radio speech after this meeting, Pétain told the French people that he was 'entering down the road of collaboration'. He ended wi
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- Author
- Julian T. Jackson
- Publisher
- PENGUIN UK
- Published
- 2023
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780241450253
- Category
- biography
- Subjects
- Memoir, Political, Historical Fiction
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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