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100	1		_aShirer, William L. _q(William Lawrence) _d(, 1904-1993)
245	1	4	_aThe collapse of the Third Republic _b: an inquiry into the fall of France in 1940 _c/ William L. Shirer
260			_aNew York _b: Simon & Schuster _c, c1969.
300			_a1082 p. _b: maps _c; 25 cm.
504			_aBibliography: p. 997-1010.
520			_aIn six lovely weeks in the spring and summer of 1940 a single battle brought down in total military defeat on of the world's great powers - it's second largest empire, an old and highly civilized democracy which Thomas Jefferson said was "every man's second country." The world watched Hitler's defeat of the French army - then believed to be one of the finest in the world - with dismay and bewilderment. How had this come about? What did it mean for all the rest of us?
650		4	_aWorld War, 1939-1945
942			_cMO
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