' … the book is by far the best-researched and most significant account of the Popular Front to appear on either side of the Channel for the last two decades. All it requires is for CUP to issue a paperback edition for it to become established as the main (or indeed the only) student text on the subject for the next decade.' Modern and Contemporary France

• List of illustrations; Preface; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Part I. Prelude to Power: 1. The origins of the Popular Front; 2. The leaders; Part II. The Explosion: 3. The social explosion; 4. The cultural explosion; Part III. The Exercise of Power: Peace, Bread And Liberty: 5. 'Liberty': defending democracy; 6. 'Bread': the Blum new deal; 7. 'Peace': the contradiction; Part IV. Coalition and Opposition: 8. The mystique of unity; 9. The view from the right; Part V. The End of the Popular Front: 10. Post-mortem; Appendices; Glossary; Notes; Bibliographical note; Index.

' … the book is by far the best-researched and most significant account of the Popular Front to appear on either side of the Channel for the last two decades. All it requires is for CUP to issue a paperback edition for it to become established as the main (or indeed the only) student text on the subject for the next decade.' Modern and Contemporary France

• List of illustrations; Preface; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Part I. Prelude to Power: 1. The origins of the Popular Front; 2. The leaders; Part II. The Explosion: 3. The social explosion; 4. The cultural explosion; Part III. The Exercise of Power: Peace, Bread And Liberty: 5. 'Liberty': defending democracy; 6. 'Bread': the Blum new deal; 7. 'Peace': the contradiction; Part IV. Coalition and Opposition: 8. The mystique of unity; 9. The view from the right; Part V. The End of the Popular Front: 10. Post-mortem; Appendices; Glossary; Notes; Bibliographical note; Index.

' … the book is by far the best-researched and most significant account of the Popular Front to appear on either side of the Channel for the last two decades. All it requires is for CUP to issue a paperback edition for it to become established as the main (or indeed the only) student text on the subject for the next decade.' Modern and Contemporary France

• List of illustrations; Preface; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Part I. Prelude to Power: 1. The origins of the Popular Front; 2. The leaders; Part II. The Explosion: 3. The social explosion; 4. The cultural explosion; Part III. The Exercise of Power: Peace, Bread And Liberty: 5. 'Liberty': defending democracy; 6. 'Bread': the Blum new deal; 7. 'Peace': the contradiction; Part IV. Coalition and Opposition: 8. The mystique of unity; 9. The view from the right; Part V. The End of the Popular Front: 10. Post-mortem; Appendices; Glossary; Notes; Bibliographical note; Index.