Second World War: 1940 - the French army and the BEF

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Description: 1940: the French army and the BEF. Rémy Porte, Lieutenant-Colonel in the French army, and director of the research department of the Centre de doctrine d'emploi des forces, at the Ecole Militaire

response, Robert Tombs, Professor of French History, University of Cambridge
 
Created: 2011-11-04 15:27
Collection: Forgetful Allies
Publisher: University of Cambridge
Copyright: Professor Robert Tombs
Language: eng (English)
Keywords: Fall of France 1940; Historiography of 1940; Controversies 1940; Rémy Porte; Robert Tombs;
 
Abstract: The disaster of 1940 is one of the most dramatic moments in our joint history, and it has left a lasting legacy. What are the themes that caused, and still caused, controversy, and how have they been treated in French historiography ever since?
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