Preface, Prologue: May-June 1940: fragments and impressions AR? ONE: ??? POLI?ICS OF DEFEAT 1. Expectations 2. Post-defeat politics: impotence and improvisation 3. Vichy, resistance, and the lessons of defeat 4. 1940 after Liberation PART ?WO: ??? DEFEAT IN ?ISTORY 5. The short term: aftermath ?. The medium term: transitions 7. The long term: legacies