Antoine Prost is Professor Emeritus of History, University of Paris Panthon-Sorbonne.

'It has to be good news that Prost's exemplary study can now be appreciated by a new generation of monoglot readers.'History'Prost's conclusions are persuasively argued, and historians of the verteran experience elsewhere would do well to take his book as a yardstick against which to measure their own work.'Canadian Military History

• Recollection; the veterans' movement; antimilitarism and pacifism; veterans' patriotism; veterans' politics - attitudes and ethics; veterans' politics - the middle classes and the regime; preface to Vichy and the Fourth Republic.

Antoine Prost is Professor Emeritus of History, University of Paris Panthon-Sorbonne.

'It has to be good news that Prost's exemplary study can now be appreciated by a new generation of monoglot readers.'History'Prost's conclusions are persuasively argued, and historians of the verteran experience elsewhere would do well to take his book as a yardstick against which to measure their own work.'Canadian Military History

• Recollection; the veterans' movement; antimilitarism and pacifism; veterans' patriotism; veterans' politics - attitudes and ethics; veterans' politics - the middle classes and the regime; preface to Vichy and the Fourth Republic.