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Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-02-01 - Publisher: Springer
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Language: en
Pages: 209
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-03-01 - Publisher: Yale University Press
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Pages: 296
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-04-22 - Publisher: OUP Oxford
On 16 May 1940 an emergency meeting of the French High Command was called at the Quai d'Orsay in Paris. The German army had broken through the French lines on t
Language: en
Pages: 293
Pages: 293
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-04-22 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Language: en
Pages: 321
Pages: 321
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-10-19 - Publisher: Harvard University Press
Shocked by the fall of France in 1940, panicked US leaders rushed to back the Vichy governmentÑa fateful decision that nearly destroyed the AngloÐAmerican all