Pétain: The Old Man of France

by Janet Flanner

$1,250 · Offered by Between the Covers · No longer available

First edition · Signed

Softcover. First edition. Quarto. Stapled wrappers. Very faint dampstain to the tops of the front and rear wrapper and a very faint horizontal crease on the right side of the front wrap, still a nice, very good plus copy of an extremely scarce book. Flanner's view of Marshall Pétain, WWI hero turned figurehead for the Nazi-controlled Vichy government in WWII. This copy Inscribed by the author to *New Yorker* colleague James Thurber and his wife: To the

• Binding: Softcover

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