Book review - "Vichy France: Old Guard and New Order, 1940-1944" by Robert Paxton (1972)

Excellent look at the Vichy regime in France in World War Two - some military stuff, but more political and social, in particular demonstrating convincingly how much Vichy was very much part of a French tradition. Indeed some of Vichy's leaders wanted to become fully fledged allies of the Germans but the Germans held off in part because of Hitler's snobbery towards them. An important book.