The French defeat of 1940 : reassessments / edited by Joel Blatt.

Includes bibliographical references.

Strategy and scapegoatism : reflections on the French national catastrophe, 1940 / Nicole Jordan -- Marc Bloch and the drôle de guerre : prelude to the "strange defeat" / Carole Fink -- Martyrs' vengeance : memory, trauma, and fear of war in France, 1918-1940 / Omer Bartov -- Domestic politics and the fall of France in 1940 / William D. Irvine -- Edouard Daladier : the conduct of the war and the beginnings of defeat / Elisabeth du Reáu -- The missed opportunity : French refugee policy in wartime, 1939-1940 / Vicki Caron -- Prelude to defeat : Franco-Soviet relatons, 1919-1939 / Michael Jabara Carley -- France and the illusion of American support, 1919-1940 / William R. Keylor -- In the eye of the beholder : the cultural representation of France and Germany by The New York Times, 1939-1940 / Robert J. Young -- Reflections on France, Britain and the winter war prodrome, 1939-1940 / John C. Cairns -- "Fighting to the last Frenchman"? : reflections on the BEF deployment to France and the strains in the Franco-British alliance, 1939-1940 / Martin S. Alexander -- French defeat in 1940 and its reversal in 1944-1945 : the Deuxième Division Blindée / Philip Farwell Bankwitz -- The trauma of 1940 : a disaster and its traces / Stanley Hoffmann.