Julian Jackson.
JULIAN JACKSON
FRANCE ON TRIAL: THE CASE OF MARSHAL PETAIN (2023)
Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize 2023.
A Times, Telegraph and Spectator Book of the Year.
Philippe Petain (born 1856) commanded the French army during the First World War, and was brought out of retirement to lead the Vichy regime which collaborated with the Nazis to govern the southerN part of France.
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Julian Jackson (born 1954) is a British historian. He was educated at Peterhouse, Cambridge, where in 1982 he obtained his PhD on the subject of the Great Depression in France. After teaching for several years at the University of Wales, Swansea, Jackson moved in 2003 to the history department of Queen Mary University. He has written several books on the 20th century history of France. Two of these (his biographies of de Gaulle and Marshal Petain) have won the Duff Cooper Prize.
