Free Download France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BS47MHQT | 2023 | 14 hours and 59 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 824 MB
Author: Julian Jackson
Narrator: Michael Chance
Few images more shocked the French population during the Occupation than the photograph of Marshal Philippe Pétain – the great French hero of the First World War – shaking the hand of Hitler on 20 October 1940. In the radio speech after this meeting, Pétain said ‘It is I alone who will be judged by History.’ Five years later, in July 1945, the hour of judegment – if not yet the judgement of History – arrived. Pétain was brought before a specially created High Court to answer for his conduct between the signing of the armistice with Germany in June 1940 and the Liberation of France in August 1944.
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