Fighting for France

Dr Chris Millington is Senior Lecturer in Twentieth-Century History at Swansea University. He has worked at Birkbeck, University of London, and Cardiff University where he was a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow. He is author of From Victory to Vichy: Veterans in Inter-war France (2012) and, with Brian Jenkins, France and Fascism: February 1934 and the Dynamics of Political Crisis (2015).

• Introduction: Violence and Democracy in Interwar France1: The Battle for the Street2: Duelling in the Meeting Hall3: The Mob and the Mass: Demonstrations, Parades and Riots4: Brutes and Bludgeoners: The Police5: Fighting for the Factory Floor6: ConclusionAppendix

Fighting or France is sure to be of interest to specialists in French twentieth-century politics and political culture, as well as to those with an interest in the comparative study of democracies' responses to political extremism in the era of fascism. It could serve as a readable and engaging supplementary text for an undergraduate course on Europe in the era of the World Wars, and could also be used to provoke productive discussion about the similarities and differences between political violence in interwar Europe and in our own time.