This account of the Vichy years examines French experiences of occupation in the years 1940-1944. It ranges from the high politics of the Vichy regime of Marshal Petain to the experience of ordinary French people under occupation.
Using eyewitness accounts, memoirs and diaries Julian Jackson charts the rapid events that led to the defeat and surrender of France, one of the greatest bastions of the Western Allies at the beginning of World War Two.