Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Preface vii
4. Introduction 1
5. I Strategy and Scapegoatism: Reflections on the French National Catastrophe, 1940 13
6. II Marc Bloch and the drôle de guerre: Prelude to the “Strange Defeat” 39
7. III Martyrs’ Vengeance: Memory, Trauma, and Fear of War in France, 1918-1940 54
8. IV Domestic Politics and the Fall of France in 1940 85
9. V Edouard Daladier: The Conduct of the War and the Beginnings of Defeat 100
10. VI The Missed Opportunity: French Refugee Policy in Wartime, 1939-1940 126
11. VII Prelude to Defeat: Franco-Soviet Relations, 1919-1939 171
12. VIII France and the Illusion of American Support, 1919-1940 204
13. IX In the Eye of the Beholder: The Cultural Representation of France and Germany by The New York Times, 1939-1940 245
14. X Reflections on France, Britain and the Winter War Prodrome, 1939-1940 269
15. XI “Fighting to the Last Frenchman”? Reflections on the BEF Deployment to France and the Strains in the Franco-British Alliance, 1939-1940 296
16. XII French Defeat in 1940 and its reversal in 1944-1945: The Deuxième Division Blindée 327
17. XIII The Trauma of 1940: A Disaster and its Traces 354
18. Contributors 371