Please visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/651132to listen full audiobooks. Title: France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain Author: Julian Jackson Narrator: Michael Chance Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 59 minutes Release date: June 15, 2023 Genres: Europe Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. 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. Julian Jackson uses Pétain's three-week trial as a lens through which to examine the central crisis of twentieth-century French history. As head of the Vichy regime, Pétain became one of France's most notorious public figures, and the lightening-rod for collective guilt and retribution immediately after the Second World War. In France on Trial Jackson blends politics and personal drama to explore how different national factions sought to try to claim the past, or establish their interpretation of it, as a way of claiming the present and future. ©2023 Julian Jackson (P)2023 Penguin Audio

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