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Title: A worm's-eye view of the Fall of France
Review: There may be a book here, but what I read isn't it. "Fighting the Nazis" is an uncritical, shapeless, flat chronicle of daily life in the Paris HQ of the Deuxieme Bureau. Rather than examine people and situations and provide the reader with an anlysis of events in the light of their outcome, the writer simply reports every word of dialogue, every event-and then goes on to the next one. The book is largely dialogue-oddly enough, for a history. One wonders why, when an announcement about a military breakthrough or a fiasco is given no more emphasis than another announcement about a change in the office's lunch rotation. This book may be worthwhile for someone looking for specific details about specific incidents, but a readable history of France's response to the Nazis must be found elsewhere.
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