France and the Nazi Menace: Intelligence and Policy Making 1933-1939 [Hardcover]

Peter Jackson (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0198208340 | ISBN-13: 978-0198208341 | Publication Date: January 11, 2001

France and the Nazi Menace examines the French response to the challenge posed by National Socialist Germany in the years 1933-1939. Dr Jackson argues that the German threat was far from the only challenge facing French national leaders in an era of economic depression and profound ideological discord. Only after the national humiliation at the Munich Conference did the threat from Nazi Germany take precedence over France's internal problems in the making of policy.

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"Jackson's book will reward readers from many different fields. It makes valuable contributions to understanding the later Third Republic, international relations between the wars, and the history of intelligence."--Journal of Modern History

Essential reading for all students of international history. This is a book to be read with pleasure as well as profit. --Diplomacy and Statecraft, Summer 2001

About the Author

Peter Jackson is a Lecturer in International History at University of Wales, Aberystwyth.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 464 pages
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (January 11, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0198208340
• ISBN-13: 978-0198208341
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.6 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,775,230 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A rare brilliant mind, July 16, 2009

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This review is from: France and the Nazi Menace: Intelligence and Policy Making 1933-1939 (Hardcover)

I am prejudiced against French intelligence. When I lived in France, for about thirty years, we were more concerned about leaks of secrets outside than about the quality of the inputs. So I was not keen to read on the subject. It is important, however: if France had had a different attitude, WWII would not have been the horror that it was.
This is an excellent book, not just well documented: it is also very smart. I have not seen clear thinking like this since...George Bernard Shaw. And that was half a century ago.