Dr Chris Millington is Senior Lecturer in Twentieth-Century History at Swansea University. He has worked at Birkbeck, University of London, and Cardiff University where he was a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow. He is author of From Victory to Vichy: Veterans in Inter-war France (2012) and, with Brian Jenkins, France and Fascism: February 1934 and the Dynamics of Political Crisis (2015).

"...this is an important piece of research that will help historians gain a greater understanding not just of French political culture in this period but also of the relationship between violence and democratic political culture in Europe more broadly." -- Karine Varley, H-Net

"Millington contributes a nuanced exploration of the circumstances in which violence took place in France, and the political cultures that both nurtured and constrained its use." -- Joan Tumblety, European History Quarterly

"Fighting for France is sure to be of interest to specialists in French twentieth-century politics and political culture, as well as to those with an interest in the comparative study of democracies' responses to political extremism in the era of fascism. It could serve as a readable and engaging supplementary text for an undergraduate course on Europe in the era of the World Wars, and could also be used to provoke productive discussion about the similarities and differences between political violence in interwar Europe and in our own time." -- Drew Flanagan, H-France