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From victory to Vichy explores the political culture and mobilisation of the two largest French veterans' associations during the inter-war years, the Union fEdErale (UF) and the Union nationale des combattants (UNC). Drawing on extensive research into the associations' organisation, discourse and tactics, this study revises the established interpretation that French veterans were inherently democratic and supportive of the parliamentary Third Republic.

With approximately 900,000 members each, the UF and the UNC were the giants of the veterans' movement. During the 1920s, the...

France and Fascism: February 1934 and the Dynamics of Political Crisis is the first English-language book to examine the most significant political event in interwar France: the Paris riots of February 1934. On 6 February 1934, thousands of fascist rioters almost succeeded in bringing down the French democratic regime. The violence prompted the polarisation of French politics as hundreds of thousands of French citizens joined extreme right-wing paramilitary leagues or the left-wing Popular Front coalition. This French civil war, the first shots of which were fired in February 1934, would...