Bénédicte Vergez-Chaignon Author

Bénédicte Vergez-Chaignon is one of France’s most distinguished historians of the Second World War, Vichy and the Resistance. A graduate of the Institut d’études politiques de Paris and a doctor of history, she has written numerous award-winning books, including biographies of Jean Moulin and Marshal Pétain.

The translator, Richard Carswell, is the author of The Fall of France in the Second World War: History and Memory (2019).