LEADER 03595cam a2200469 i 4500001 288125 005 20240622100952.0 008 230302s1995 coua b 001 0aeng 020 0813319056 |q(alkaline paper) 020 9780813319056 |q(alkaline paper) 035 (OCoLC)ocm31172727 035 288125 043 e-fr--- 049 LHMA 041 1 eng |hfre 040 DLC |beng |erda |cDLC |dBAKER |dNLGGC |dBTCTA |dYDXCP |dOCLCG |dSTF |dUAB |dUKM |dDRB |dUPM |dCNMBL |dBDX |dOCLCO |dOCLCF |dOCLCQ |dTAMSA |dOCL |dOCLCQ |dOCL |dOCLCO |dOCL |dMM9 |dOCL |dOCLCQ |dOCLCO |dTAMSA |dJ9U |dOCLCO |dOCLCL |dLHM 050 00 DC397.D25 |bA3 1995 100 1 Daladier, Edouard, |d1884-1970, |eauthor. 240 10 Journal de captivité, 1940-1945. |lEnglish 245 10 Prison journal, 1940-1945 / |cEdouard Daladier ; with a foreword by Stanley Hoffmann ; compiled and annotated by Jean Daladier with Jean Daridan ; translated by Arthur D. Greenspan. 250 English edition. 264 Boulder : |bWestview Press, |c1995. 300 xxiii, 376 pages : |billustrations ; |c24 cm 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 504 Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 The French Prime Minister who signed the Munich Agreement in 1938 and who one year later led his country into war against Hitler's Germany, Edouard Daladier was arrested by the Vichy regime and imprisoned in France and Germany until the war's end. As a pastime and a catharsis, Daladier wrote. He wrote about what had happened to him and to his country, about day-to-day conditions in captivity, and about what he could glean of the anti-Nazi war effort through newspaper accounts, from the visits of his friends and family, and from his well-hidden radio receiver. He wrote of the accusations made against him by his former proteges and comrades-in-arms; and of his trial, during which the charges oddly metamorphosed from having declared war on Germany to not having sufficiently prepared France for battle (the charges were of little importance, as the verdict had been previously decided). 520 8 Ever the statesman, Daladier wrote most of all about his hopes and fears for France and Europe - which hung so heavily, at first, upon the battlefield successes of the British, American, and Allied forces; and later, upon the Allies' refusal to recognize in Soviet power the danger of the very totalitarianism that they had been fighting to eliminate. At the war's end, witnessing the devastation of Germany, Daladier wrote with a poignant sympathy that is unexpectedly moving. Daladier's notes remained forgotten and unpublished until twenty years after his death, when they were discovered and compiled by his son Jean. They are presented here in English for the first time. By turns sorrowful, enraged, humorous, and philosophical, this lively narrative gives fresh insights into the tangled politics of the era. 591 Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024 600 10 Daladier, Edouard, |d1884-1970 |vDiaries. 650 0 Statesmen |zFrance |vDiaries. 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xPrisoners and prisons |vDiaries. 650 0 Political science. 650 0 Prisoners of war. 655 7 Diaries. |2lcgft 655 7 Autobiographies. |2lcgft 700 1 Daladier, Jean, |ecompiler. 700 1 Daridan, Jean, |ecompiler. 700 1 Hoffman, Stanley, |ewriter of introduction. 700 1 Greenspan, Arthur D., |etranslator. 852 0 |bscstacks |hDC397.D25 |iA3 1995