2nd World War, Middle East - BOOK, "Les Iles d'Or" editions - Lot 893

2nd World War, Middle East - BOOK, "Les Iles d'Or" editions 1954, by A. LAFFARGUE. "SERVITUDE et GRANDEUR MILITAIRES, GENERAL DENTZ / PARIS 1940 - SYRIA 1941". Preface by General Weygand - History of the Surrender of Paris and the entry of the Germans into the capital, of which he was the guardian, then of the Battles in SYRIA / LEBANON / IRAQ, to which the Vichy Government had sent him. A highly detailed work on little-known events, based on notes written by General DENTZ in prison. NOTE: Henri-Fernand DENTZ, an Alsatian from Saverne, whose father preferred to leave in 1871 to avoid becoming a Prussian; H.F. Dentz was 17 years old. Graduated from Saint Cyr at 20, 1st in his class, served in the Zouaves, Morocco campaign. Enters the Ecole de Guerre. Front in 1914, intelligence service in the Middle East. Division General in spring 1940. In June 1940, ordered to surrender Paris to the enemy - In December, appointed by Marshal PETAIN as High Commissioner in Syria. In this capacity, obeying the Vichy government, he facilitated the passage of German troops and armed the anti-British rebellion in IRACQ. In June 1941, he opposed the Free French, surrendering his arms to the British on July 15, 1941. At the Liberation, he was charged and sentenced to death; pardoned by General DE GAULLE, his sentence was commuted to life imprisonment, and he died in prison on December 13, 1945.