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World War II Vichy French Security Troops

Dr Stephen M Cullen author Mark Stacey illustrator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published:22nd Feb '18

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A detailed study into the significant but little-known arm of the Axis security machinery in occupied Europe – the Vichy French Security Troops, the collaborators who hunted the Resistance.

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 will cover 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.

ISBN: 9781472827753

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 169g

48 pages