France on Trial av Julian Jackson

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<p><b>Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize 2023<br>A <i>Telegraph </i>Book of the Year<br>A <i>Times</i>, <i>Spectator </i>and <i>Prospect</i> Book of the Year<br><br>One of the great contemporary historians of France</b><b>on one of</b><b>the most controversial periods of twentieth-century French history</b><br><br>Few images more shocked the French population during the Occupation than the photograph of Marshal Philippe P¿in - the great French hero of the First World War - shaking the hand of Hitler on 20 October 1940. In a radio speech after this meeting, P¿in told the French people that he was ''entering down the road of collaboration''. He ended with the words: ''This is my policy. My ministers are responsible to me. It is I alone who will be judged by History.'' Five years later, in July 1945, the hour of judgement - if not yet the judgement of History - arrived. P¿in was brought before a specially created High Court to answer for his conduct between the signing of the armistice with