French Appeasement
Andrew Boxer considers explanations for France’s disastrous foreign policy between the wars.
Introduction
In the early summer of 1940 French armies were defeated in just six weeks and surrender was followed by four years of German occupation. And yet just 22 years earlier France had been victorious over Germany and had helped to fashion a peace treaty designed to prevent any resurgence of German power. How did France go from triumphant victor to humiliated victim in so short a time?
Interpretations of the French Collapse
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