Douglas Johnson

Scapegoat or quisling extraordinaire? Douglas Johnson probes the motives and actions of Vichy's chief minister to find insularity and gamesmanship his fatal flaws.

Cometh the hour, cometh the man - is this the secret of Braudel's fame as the Victor Hugo of French history?

Douglas Johnson recounts the life of the infamous French army captain.

Readers of Zuleika Dobson will recall the occasion when Mr Pedby, the Junior Fellow, read grace. As they listened to the false quantities of his Latin, the occupants of the high table experienced an unusual pleasure. They knew that they were present at an occasion which was to become an Oxford Legend.

Douglas Johnson on a French village’s attempts to honour its local history.

A new booklet on the Ministry of Information and its wartime messages to the British public.

Douglas Johnson considers whether anecdotes are a mark of the self-indulgent historian.

Douglas Johnson asks what political or military intrigues lay behind the sudden recall to power, twenty-five years ago this month, of Charles de Gaulle, the wartime leader of the Free French.

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