Halik Kochanski

Sep 27, 2024 | fivebooks.com | Julian Jackson |Halik Kochanski |Tania Branigan |Beverly Gage

France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain 🏆 Winner of the 2024 Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize for nonfiction Read expert recommendations “Pétain had been the hero of Verdun, a great figure, but he was being tried for treason for signing the armistice with the Nazi regime and being the leader of the Vichy regime in France. He was on trial for his life, accused of collusion with Nazi Germany, and the verdict wasn’t much in doubt. It’s about more than the fate of a particular person—it’s a...

Dec 13, 2023 | fivebooks.com | Halik Kochanski |Tania Branigan |Beverly Gage |Nandini Das

“It’s comprehensive, and that’s very important because a problem with history writing in general, but particularly with resistance, is that it tends to be written from a nation-centric point of view…But this was a pan-European movement and what she does really well is to identify first of all the commonalities. In all of these countries, when you look at underground resistance movements, similar things happened.