Chris Millington is Senior Lecturer in Modern European History at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. He is the author of Fighting for France: Violence in Interwar French Politics (2018), From Victory to Vichy: Veterans in Inter-war France (2012) and co-author, along with Brian Jenkins, of France and Fascism: February 1934 and the Dynamics of Political Crisis (2015).

Compelling ... Millington’s conceit has produced a rich and important contribution to our understanding of fascism. It is lively and readable, especially his blow-by-blow description of six février. It is also grounded in a truly impressive mastery of the relevant historiography.

• AcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: What was Fascism?1. Searching for a French Mussolini during the 1920s2. Bloodshed in the City of Light: 6 February 19343. The Army of the Death’s Head: The Croix de Feu4. Fascism Defeated? The Parti Social Français and the Parti Populaire Français5. Bombs, Bullets, and Bloody Murder: The Cagoule6. National Revolution, 1940-1944Epilogue: The National FrontAppendix: The French Allergy to Fascism: A Historiographical EssayBibliography

Chris Millington is Senior Lecturer in Modern European History at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. He is the author of Fighting for France: Violence in Interwar French Politics (2018), From Victory to Vichy: Veterans in Inter-war France (2012) and co-author, along with Brian Jenkins, of France and Fascism: February 1934 and the Dynamics of Political Crisis (2015).

Compelling ... Millington’s conceit has produced a rich and important contribution to our understanding of fascism. It is lively and readable, especially his blow-by-blow description of six février. It is also grounded in a truly impressive mastery of the relevant historiography.

• AcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: What was Fascism?1. Searching for a French Mussolini during the 1920s2. Bloodshed in the City of Light: 6 February 19343. The Army of the Death’s Head: The Croix de Feu4. Fascism Defeated? The Parti Social Français and the Parti Populaire Français5. Bombs, Bullets, and Bloody Murder: The Cagoule6. National Revolution, 1940-1944Epilogue: The National FrontAppendix: The French Allergy to Fascism: A Historiographical EssayBibliography