French foreign and defence policy, 1918-1940 : the decline and fall of a great power Robert Boyce.French foreign and Deffence policy 1918-1940:The Decline and Fall of a Great Power.. 1998See also T. Imlay, `France and the phoney war, 1939-1940', in Boyce (ed.), French Foreign and...
To place things in perspective, during the Battle of France in April-June 1940, the composition of the German Panzerwaffe were as follows: 278 Panzer IVs, 349 Panzer IIIs, 955 Panzer IIs, 523 Panzer Is, 106 Panzer 35(t)s, and 228 Panzer 38(t)s. This was an impressive number for th...
WORLD War IIGERMAN occupation of France, 1940-1945HOLOCAUST, 1939-1945HISTORIOGRAPHYThe prolific Chris Millington's France in the Second World War is a fine introduction to the subject for an Anglophone audience. With his students at Manchester Metropolitan University in mind, Millington has written ...
When the Germans occupied France in 1940, they organized group tours for tens of thousands of their personnel. Their itineraries and symbols reflected Nazi images of the Germans as appreciating French high culture but also conscious of their own ''race and homeland''. German touristic values impac...
Thus one must understand how important a chance the 1939 European War brought for Japan: David Reynolds called the sudden fall of France in 1940 the ‘Fulcrum of the Twentieth Century’, a truly remarkable name for the most unthinkable event. And suddenly the Japanese found themselves saved from...
France/Federal Republic of Germany (1955?-1961) Anti-Tank Reconnaissance Vehicle – 1 to 2 Prototypes Built With the formation of the Bundeswehr in 1955, the new army of West Germany, a decision was made to acquire small tracked armored reconnaissance vehicles for use in the so-called Panzer...
FOR FRANCE Visiting Saumur Saumur megaliths A large cavalry school was established in Saumur before the revolution. The invading German forces arrived in 1940. A group of 786 cadets from the cavalry school, together with students from a non-commissioned officers' school and a company of North...
Statler, K. C. (2007).Replacing France: The origins of American intervention in Vietnam. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky. Tenenbaum, E. (2018).Partisans et centurions: Une histoire de la guerre irrégulière au 20siècle. Paris: Perrin. ...
France, 1918-40]]>BartovO.ingentaconnectHistorical ReflectionsBartov, Omer. "Martyrs' Vengeance: Memory, Trauma, and Fear of War in France, 1918- 40". Historical Reflections / Reflexions Historiques, Vol. 22, No. 1, The French Defeat of 1940: Reassessments (Winter 1996), pp. 47-76....
This shadow war strongly influenced decolonization of the region as each Power sought to undermine the other; Britain exploited France's defeat to evict it from its mandated territories in Syria and Lebanon and incorporate them in its own sphere of influence; whilst France's successful use of ...