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The Reluctant Enemies: The War Between Britain and France, 1940-42 Book
This book tells for the first time the full story of one of the most tragic, yet one of the least remembered conflicts of the Second World War. After the fall of France, Britain was effectively at war with her great European ally, beside whom she had until very recently been fighting and with whom she still - she believed - shared a common purpose. This book illuminates the dilemma in which the ministers of the Vichy French government found themselves; duty impelled their loyalty to a sham government, common sense told them - or should have told them - otherwise. So one of its themes is the desperate no-man's-land between necessary collaboration and true betrayal, a policy which some members of the Vichy governments, believing as they did that the allies were doomed, did not hesitate to … read more...
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