Incluye : Introducción páginas xi-xvi ; Prólogo páginas 3-50 ; Apéndices páginas 387-391.

Incluye índice.

The french quest for collaboration, 1940-1942: Pierre Laval and the Paris connection -- The "new policy," september-december 1940 -- The meaning of december 13 -- The cold shoulder: Flandin and Darlan -- Darlan's grand design -- Darlan's fall and laval's return: April 1942 -- The national revolution: Competing visions -- An answer to decadence -- Moral order: The church -- Moral order: Education and the young -- Moral order: The family -- France for the french -- The state: Liberty and authority -- Return to the soil -- Escape from class and competition: corporatism in power -- From persuasion to constraint: the emerging police state -- The national revolution and fascism -- The collaborators: Ins, outs, and notables -- The french civil war: 1934-37 -- The revenge of the minorities -- Experts -- Traditionalists -- The left at Vichy -- Collaboration -1942-44: between liberation and revolution: Threats to the social order-1: resistance -- Threats to the social order-2: second front -- Last french bids for collaboration: 1942-43 -- 1944: the dream of peaceful transition, the nightmare of civil war -- A balance sheet: the legacy of Vichy: Breaks and continuities -- Vichy and french society -- Was Vichy a lesser evil? -- Profits and losses -- A moral balance sheet.

3