PETAIN: HERO OR TRAITOR

Author: Herbert R Lottman

Publisher: Viking

Year published: 1985

Pagination: 444pp,

Condition: good in faded d/w

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Henri Philippe Pétain was a French Army general and later Chief of State of Vichy France from 1940 to 1944. Due to his military leadership in World War I, he was viewed as a hero in France, but his actions during World War II resulted in a conviction and death sentence for treason, which was commuted to life imprisonment by Charles de Gaulle. The author has benefited from the use of previously secret files