New book on Vichy France

"The Hunt for Nazi Spies: Fighting Espionage in Vichy France" covers what seems an interesting tangle of espionage and opposing sympathies in Vichy France (Vichy was the name of the French government in the south, from 1940 until its occupation by German forces in 1943). From The New York Sun:

The British historian Simon Kitson leaves Desseigne's story at this, and rightly so. "The Hunt for Nazi Spies: Fighting Espionage in Vichy France" (University of Chicago Press, 208 pages, $25) is history, not a novel, and Mr. Kitson is a historian's historian: a patient, meticulous master of the archives, a disciplined analyst, a servant of the evidence. His study of the French counterintelligence service's pursuit of German spies during the collaboration is not calculated to appeal to a mass market. Yet the imaginative reader will find the germ here of at least a dozen characters to populate a sensational spy novel.

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Mr. Kitson draws chiefly upon the documents from French counterintelligence seized by the Germans in 1943 following their invasion of the Southern Zone. Some 1,400 cartons were confiscated by the Soviets at the end of the war and repatriated to France at the end of the 1990s; Mr. Kitson's study represents the first systematic analysis of their contents. Unlike private collections donated to the French national archives by former intelligence operatives, these archives have not been sanitized to suggest a heroic narrative of resistance. The story they tell is considerably more ambiguous and complicated. It does no one in Vichy much credit.