Caught between the memory of a brutal war won at frightful cost and fear of another cataclysm, France in the 1930s suffered a failure of nerve. Brilliantly chronicled here by a master historian, this fateful era could neither solve insoluble problems nor escape from them.

About the Author
Author and narrator of the PBS program "The Western Tradition," Eugen Weber is the Joan Palevsky Professor of Modern European History at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Reviews
"[An] arresting and readable portrait of the interwar years." -- Boston Sunday Globe
"A brilliant survey of the key aspects of French life in the decade before the debacle . . . rendered in lighthearted, witty, but unfailingly perceptive commentary." -- Fritz Stern - Foreign Affairs
"With the superb mastery of detail that we have come to expect from him, Weber makes the France of the 1920s and 1930s live before our eyes." -- Peter Gay, Yale University



Book Information
ISBN 9780393314793
Author Eugen Joseph Weber
Format Paperback
Page Count 400
Imprint WW Norton & Co
Publisher WW Norton & Co
Weight(grams) 509g
Dimensions(mm) 211mm * 142mm * 25mm