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

About the Author

Joel Blatt teaches at the University of Connecticut at Stamford.

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