Trial of Pierre Laval
In a stunning work combining historical memory, legal ambiguity, and profound issues of justice, J. Kenneth Brody provides a picture of France in World War II that continues to haunt the present. Architect in 1940 of Marshal Petain''s Vichy French regime and its prime minister from April 1942 to August 1944, at war''s end Pierre Laval was promptly arrested on charges of treason. This book tells...
In a stunning work combining historical memory, legal ambiguity, and profound issues of justice, J. Kenneth Brody provides a picture of France in World War II that continues to haunt the present. Architect in 1940 of Marshal Petain''s Vichy French regime and its prime minister from April 1942 to August 1944, at war''s end Pierre Laval was promptly arrested on charges of treason. This book tells...
