To the Maginot Line : : The Politics of French Military Preparation in the 1920’s / / Judith M. HUGHES.

The decision to fortify northeastern France has usually been considered a tragic mistake, an example of bad planning and missed opportunities. Not so, says Judith M. Hughes, who provides a convincing view of how France’s military and political leaders tried to safeguard their nation and why they fai...

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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2022]
©1971
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Harvard Historical Monographs ; 64
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Physical Description:1 online resource (308 p.)
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t Acknowledgments --   |t Contents --   |t Tables --   |t Introduction --   |t 1. France at the End of the War --   |t 2. Foch and the Disjunction of Diplomacy and Military Planning --   |t 3. Petain and Parliament: The Formulation and Passage of French Military Legislation --   |t 4. From the Ruhr to Locarno via Morocco --   |t 5. To the Maginot Line --   |t 6. Epilogue, 1930-1940 --   |t Selected Bibliography --   |t Index 
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520 |a The decision to fortify northeastern France has usually been considered a tragic mistake, an example of bad planning and missed opportunities. Not so, says Judith M. Hughes, who provides a convincing view of how France’s military and political leaders tried to safeguard their nation and why they failed. As critic Michael Hurst writes in The American Historical Review, " The trends of French interwar history are deftly carried through onto these pages with an unobtrusive lucidity and persuasiveness." 
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