An essential introduction to the major political problems, debates and conflicts which are central to the history of the Third Republic in France, from the Fran

The National Book Award–winning historian’s “vivid and moving” eyewitness account of the fall of France to Hitler’s Third Reich at the outset of WWII

Brief documentary survey of the major political and social decisions of the Third French Republic.

In this compact and tightly argued essay, the author maintains that the French Third Republic - and European history during this period in general - can only be