Robert O. Paxton

Vichy France: Old Guard and New Order 1940-1944 (2001)

this is the book i want to write, except i want to write it about algeria, and not vichy. it's impossible to overestimate the impact this book had on modern France, and the history of the country. it has been said (and rightly so) that this book could not have been written by a frenchman - it had...