Product Description: This is the first book to treat bombing during WWII as a European phenomenon and not just the 'Blitz' on Britain and Germany. >

Product Description: France's liberation was expected to trigger a decisive break both with the Vichy régime and with the pre-war Third Republic. What happened, over three crucial years (1944-47), was an untidy patchwork of unplanned continuities and false starts - along with fresh departures that defined France's future for the next half-century...read more

The Government and Politics of France has been the leading textbook on French politics for over a generation, and continues to provide students with a comprehensive and incisive introduction to the intricacies of French politics and government. This edition updates every chapter, with the addition of a new chapter on France and Europe. Recent events necessitate a new edition, particularly the 2002 elections and the growing interpenetration of France and the EU in student programmes, as well as in the real world.Whether covering the shifting balance within France's two-headed executive, the paradoxes of the French party politics, the power and fragmentation of France's administration, the growing assertiveness of French local government, or the newly visible world of the judiciary, The Government and Politics of France has always sought to confront established paradigms with the complex and untidy reality of French politics at the grass roots.

This book, now in its 5th edition, continues to provide students with a comprehensive and incisive introduction to the intricacies of French politics and government. This updated edition includes a new chapter on France and Europe.

Product Description: The French elections of 2002 broke all records for fragmentation, abstention and far-right protest voting, yet returned incumbent President Chirac in triumph and gave him a solid basis of parliamentary support. Parties and the Party System in France seeks to explain the paradox of France's current relationship to politics through a comprehensive analysis of French political parties and their interaction over the last 50 years, set against the two contexts of French history and of contemporary theories of parties and party systems...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This new edition offers a clear and accessible comparative introduction to the political institutions of Western Europe's four largest countries: Britain, France, Italy, and Germany. It has been thoroughly revised to cover not only developments at a national level, but also the growing integration of national politics with the politics of the European Union...read more

Product Description: This work offers a detailed coverage of the political phenomenon of Gaullism after de Gaulle left power in 1968-69. It makes clear that Gaullism is hard to pin down - that it is easier to say what it did than what it was. The distinction between the essential and the contingent, which has always been a tension in Gaullism, is explored...read more