By Ian Ousby

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Publish 12 months note: First released in 1998
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France was once sluggish and slightly ineffectual in organizing resistance move. In profession Ian Ousby demanding situations the parable that France was once liberated " by means of the total of France." the writer explores the Nazi profession of France with outstanding aspect and eyewitness money owed that diversity from recognized figures like Simone de Beauvoir, Charles de Gaulle, Andre Gide, Jean-Paul Sartre and Gertrude Stein to boring electorate, forgotten heroes and traitors.

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W hat role would heavy artillery play in such tactics? The First World War had shown the disadvantages as well as the advantages of the opening bombardment from fixed positions: it might have wrought destruction and panic on a massive scale but it also gave warning of the intention to attack and, besides, it could plough up the terrain which advancing troops needed to cross. Both drawbacks could be fatal to Panzer divisions whose best chance of success lay in surprise and speed. Mobile anti-tank guns supporting the tanks would help, thought Guderian, since he always regarded the tank as the most dangerous enemy of the tank.

Petain got the job after Nivelle dis­ graced himself with the Chemin des Dames offensive, but that was specifically because his touch was needed in handling the mutinies. At the start of the final Allied offensive in the summer of I9I8 Foch was appointed over his head as Supreme Commander of all the Allied armies in France. So though Petain might have been the popular hero of the I9I9 V ictory Parade it was Foch who enjoyed the place of honour behind the grands mutilis at the head of the column.

Perhaps Joffre and others like him can be dismissed as spokesmen for the older school of military thinking which the war discredited and Petain himself rejected. Field Marshal Earl Haig's doubts are harder to dismiss since he originally judged Petain 'business-like, knowledgeable, and brief of speech', the last being a quality he prized greatly but encountered too rarely in Frenchmen. Yet even he reported that, during Ludendorffs spring offensive in I9I8, Petain looked as if he 'was in a funk and had lost his nerve'.

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