The leafless little parks of Vichy seemed even more forlorn than before. The name Pétain might keep for many a touch of magic—a legendary gleam that shone out of the mud of Verdun. But the man Pétain, ...

United States Army War College history professor Michael Neiberg talked about his research process for studying Vichy France, which collaborated with the Nazis, and the Anglo-American relationship ...

Few chapters in World War II history are as contentious as Vichy France. After the 1940 defeat, Marshal Philippe Pétain’s ...

The French Jewish novelist and essayist Léon Werth spent World War II, buffeted by history but shielded from its worst consequences, chronicling the passivity, inertia and gradual political awakening ...

Of France's 62 million people, fewer than 5 million are old enough to have any memory of the horrifying weeks in May and June 1940, when the Nazi war machine crushed the country's armed forces, forced ...

Michael S. Neiberg, When France Fell: The Vichy Crisis and the Fate of the Anglo-American Alliance. (Harvard University Press, 2021), 312 pp., $29.95. “You can always count on the Americans to do the ...