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The last shots fired between England and France took place during World War II, when Vichy, France was left unoccupied by the Nazi regime in return for their collaboration. From the summer of 1940 through November, 1942, British forces engaged the Vichy French on land, sea, and air. Thousands of lives were lost in the 20th century's most one-sided battle, and the history of this conflict was buried-until now. Through painstaking research, historian Colin Smith throws back the veil of secrecy to detail this last bloody conflict between modern Europe's great powers.
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Colin Smith is the acclaimed author of SINGAPORE BURNING and co-author of ALAMEIN - WAR WITHOUT HATE.
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In this exemplary work, Smith displays a real knack for conveying time, place and pungent action. * WARSHIP INTERNATIONAL FLEET REVIEW * "Colin Smith's light yet detailed touch superbly outlines a wasteful and depressing story... A quality read with many political and military twists and turns." * SOLDIER MAGAZINE * "a classic on the conflict with Hitlers Vichy allies... a superb book on an astonishing array of long-buried incidents." * OXFORD TIMES * Smith's considerable achievement is to unmask the reality and make us understand this painful period far better than ever before. * CATHOLIC HERALD * excellent account of a woefully understudied 'war within a war'...Astonishingly, this is the first book -- Andrew Roberts * LITERARY REVIEW * a narrative of war that has much of Patrick O'Brian about it. -- Carmen Callil * GUARDIAN * his descriptions of these obscure battlefield encounters are thrilling and his narrative is spruce and peppery. -- Christopher Silvester * DAILY TELEGRAPH * Riveting -- Robert Fisk * INDEPENDENT * Smith describes unfamiliar battles with notable fluency and skill -- Max Hastings * SUNDAY TIMES *
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- Publication date2010
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- ISBN 13 9780753827055
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