France on Trial - History that Reaches Out of the Page and Sticks its Thumb in Your Eye

This is a review of Julian Jackson's new book 'France on Trial' about the Petain trial. 

 

Imagine a different 1940: In France, the Maginot Line holds and the Nazis are stopped, but in a smashing surprise cross-channel invasion Hitler���s tanks reach London while most of Britain���s regiments are still trapped on the continent. There is no Dunkirk rescue. An SS death squad murders Winston Churchill on the steps of Ten Downing Street, but not before he kills some of them. The King and Queen fle...