The French Defeat of 1940 : : Reassessments / / ed. by Joel Blatt.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package Pre-2000
• MitwirkendeR: Alexander, Martin S.,; Bankwitz, Philip Farwell,; Bartov, Omer,; Blatt, Joel,; Cairns, John C.,; Carley, Michael Jabara,; Caron, Vicki,; Fink, Carole,; Hoffmann, Stanley,; Irvine, William D.,; Jordan, Nicole,; Keylor, William R.,; Réau, Elisabeth Du,; Young, Robert J.,
• HerausgeberIn: Blatt, Joel,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [1997]; ©1997
• Year of Publication: 1997
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (384 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; Preface --; Introduction --; I Strategy and Scapegoatism: Reflections on the French National Catastrophe, 1940 --; II Marc Bloch and the drôle de guerre: Prelude to the “Strange Defeat” --; III Martyrs’ Vengeance: Memory, Trauma, and Fear of War in France, 1918-1940 --; IV Domestic Politics and the Fall of France in 1940 --; V Edouard Daladier: The Conduct of the War and the Beginnings of Defeat --; VI The Missed Opportunity: French Refugee Policy in Wartime, 1939-1940 --; VII Prelude to Defeat: Franco-Soviet Relations, 1919-1939 --; VIII France and the Illusion of American Support, 1919-1940 --; IX In the Eye of the Beholder: The Cultural Representation of France and Germany by The New York Times, 1939-1940 --; X Reflections on France, Britain and the Winter War Prodrome, 1939-1940 --; XI “Fighting to the Last Frenchman”? Reflections on the BEF Deployment to France and the Strains in the Franco-British Alliance, 1939-1940 --; XII French Defeat in 1940 and its reversal in 1944-1945: The Deuxième Division Blindée --; XIII The Trauma of 1940: A Disaster and its Traces --; Contributors
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780857457172; 9783110998306
• DOI: 10.1515/9780857457172
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Joel Blatt.

Why France, the major European continental victor in 1918, suffered total defeat in six weeks at the hands of the vanquished power of 1918 only two decades later remains moot. Why the stunning reversal of fortunes? In this volume thirteen prominent scholars reexamine the French debacle of 1940 in interwar perspectives, utilizing fresh analysis, original approaches, and new sources. Although the tenor of the volume is critical, the contributors also suggest that French preparations for war knew successes as well as failures, that French defeat was not inevitable, and that the Battle of France might have turned out differently if different choices had been made and other paths been followed.