World War II Vichy French Security Troops (Men-at-Arms) - Softcover

Cullen, Stephen M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1472827759 ISBN 13: 9781472827753

Publisher: Osprey Publishing, 2018

Synopsis

After the Fall of France in 1940, a new puppet state was set up in the south. Officially known as the French State, it is better known as Vichy France. This collaborationist Vichy regime's armed forces were more active and usually more numerous than German troops in the task of hunting down and crushing the maquis--the French Resistance guerrilla forces .

This book covers the organization and operations of Vichy French Security Forces, including: the new Vichy Police Nationale, particularly their Groupes Mobiles de Reserve, the Service d'Ordre Légionnaire, and the Milice Francaise, a ruthless anti-Resistance militia armed partly with British weapons captured from SOE airdrops.

Fully illustrated throughout with contemporary photographs and commissioned artwork, it tells the story of Occupied France from the perspective of those who sought to keep it in German hands.

About this title

About the Authors

Dr Stephen M. Cullen was educated at the universities of Edinburgh and Oxford. He has written widely on inter-war fascism, communism, and British Great War combatants' writing. He has also written on the history of the British Home Guard, including, most recently, In Search of the Real Dad's Army; The Home Guard and the Defence of the United Kingdom, 1940-1944 (Pen & Sword, 2011 & 2016). He has been a guest on several BBC Radio programmes, talking about military and political history. He is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Warwick, England.

Mark Stacey was born in Manchester, UK, in 1964 and has been a freelance illustrator since 1987. He has a lifelong interest in all periods of history, particularly military history, and has specialized in this area throughout his career. He now lives and works in Cornwall.

Edition details

• Publisher: Osprey Publishing
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1472827759
• ISBN 13: 9781472827753
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Stacey Mark
• Number of pages: 48