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Article: France in 1938.(Book review)
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- The Historian
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- June 22, 2008
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France in 1938. By Benjamin F. Martin. (Baton Rouge, La.: Louisiana State University Press, 2005. Pp. x, 252. $18.95.)
This author's latest book offers a chronologically organized narrative history of 1938 in France that focuses on France's response to Nazism, culminating in the Munich Accords. Although films by Marcel Carne, novels by Jean-Paul Sartre, and newspaper sources are used to reconstruct the mood of the period, France in 1938 is mostly based on secondary materials.
The intended audience of general readers will likely appreciate the verve of Benjamin F. Martin's prose. The portraits of Leon Blum and Edouard Daladier are vivid and powerful. The ...