vichy

What if Petain, in a Mussolini-esque move, declares war on the UK following operation catapult, believing that Britain is going to be invaded by Germany shortly anyway and that the new regime will have more legitimacy/prestige with the citizens if it has a one or two military victories under its...

I was reading Vichy sous les tropiques, La Révolution nationale à Madagascar, en Guadeloupe, en Indochine, 1940-1944, and there was apparently a proposal by Vichy to send military forces from French Indochina to retake New Caledonia in February 1941; "Fait incroyable, en février 1941, un haut...