| Titre | DARLAN, UN AMIRAL ENTRE DEUX BLOCS. RÉFLEXIONS SUR UNE BIOGRAPHIE RÉCENTE | |
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| Auteur | Robert 0. PAXTON | |
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Revue |
20 & 21. Revue d'histoire Titre à cette date : Vingtième siècle, revue d'histoire |
| Numéro | no 36, octobre-décembre 1992 | |
| Page | 3-20 | |
| Résumé anglais | Darlan, an admiral between two blocks. Reflections on a recent biography, Robert O. Vaxton. Although the recent biography of Darlan by H. Coutau-Bégarie and C. Huan (Fayard, 1989) is based on substantial documentation, it is not convincing either on the supposed " double game " of Vichy, or on the idea that there is a " respectable " Vichy (that of Pétain and Darlan) and a " bad Vichy " (that of Laval). While the thesis of the neutralist strategy that Darlan is said to have implemented between the two blocks, the German and the Anglo-Saxon ones, is arresting and while the taking into account of Darlan's personality represents a major contribution, the lack of knowledge of the German, English and American archives and above ail the distorsion between the documents presented and the commentary removes much credibility from this work. | |
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