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The Hunt for Nazi Spies

Jealous neighbourhood watch

Simon Kitson, translated by Catherine Tihanyi
University of Chicago Press, 218pp, £14.99,

M. R. D. Foot

Wednesday, 16th January 2008

M. R. D. Foot on the new, English translation of Simon Kitson's book

This short, telling book — it has barely 160 pages of actual text — first came out two years ago in French. It takes a fresh look at Pétain’s French state, which tried to govern defeated France from Vichy from 1940 to 1944; the unfamiliar angle of sight reveals several surprises. Those of us who do not live under authoritarian regimes are always curious about what life in them is like; here is fresh fuel for our curiosity, neatly set out by an expert.

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