The Decline Of The Third Republic, 1914-1938

Cambridge / Paris: Cambridge University Press / Editions De La Maison Des Science, 1985. Hardcover. Good+ (ex-library w/ stamps to textblock edges, internal stamps, usual markings etc. edge-wear w/ indentation to lower cover edge. dustjacket taped to cover edges, ID to lower spine; plastic scuffed.). olive cloth boards. book xviii, 358 pgs. blue bw illustrated dustjacket w/ protective plastic. From a college library. Pages have instances of black pen underlining and marginalia. Remains a nice, bright copy. "This book provides a detailed account of the Third Republic in France between the outbreak and conduct of the First World War and the fall of Leon Blum's 'Front Populaire' soon after Hitler's invasion and annexation of Austria in 1938. Following the trauma of war, France slipped into the 'era of illusions' which, despite the comparative prosperity of the 1920s, led to the slump and the severe social and economic unrest of the 1930S. The short-lived experiment of Blum's 'Front Populaire' gave way to more conservatively based ministries, but by 1938 a new common enemy began to draw together the political opinion of the country."--WorldCat.