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From Victory to Vichy: Veterans in Interwar France

Chris Millington

Swansea University Author: Chris Millington

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DOI (Published version): 10.7228/manchester/9780719085505.001.0001

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This book is the most up-to-date English-language study of the French veterans of the First World War. It explores the politics and associational culture of France's two largest veterans' associations between the wars, the Union federale (UF) and the Union nationale des combattants (UNC)....

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Published: Manchester Manchester University Press 2012
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