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Jeremy Harding: Paris 1940, 8 May 2008
Fleeing Hitler: France 1940
by Hanna Diamond.
Oxford, 255 pp., £16.99, June 2007,978 0 19 280618 5 Show More
by Hanna Diamond.
Oxford, 255 pp., £16.99, June 2007,
“... stoical insouciance of people who’d remained. The administration on the run was now headed by Paul Reynaud, a maverick conservative whose Churchillian instincts were never likely to prevail. Reynaud declared Paris an open city, but it was of no consequence for the many who’d already left and those who were scrambling out at the last minute. Hanna ... ”