IN THE THICK OF THE FIGHT (684 pp.) Paul ReynaudSimon & Schuster ($7.50).
When it comes to putting Frenchmen into the tumbrels of political recrimination, none are more skillful than other Frenchmen. In The Gravediggers of France, in 1944, French Journalist Pertinax (André Géraud) called Paul Reynaud the third gravedigger (after Gamelin and Daladier and before Pétain and Laval). Reynaud now makes an eloquent case for the proposition that, if he helped dig the grave, it was really his political enemies who committed the murder and provided the corpse.
"Why France fell" is familiar ground, but the subject remains important because the fall...
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