Nicholas AtkinNICHOLAS ATKIN was Professor of Modern European History and Head of the School of History at the University of Reading, UK. Nicholas Atkin is Professor of Modern European History at the University of Reading, England. His publications inclue Church and School in Vichy France, 1940-44 (1991), Petain (1997), The French at War, 1934-44 (2001), The Forgotten French: Exiles in the British Isles, 1940-44 (2003), The Fifth French Republic (2005) and, with Frank Tallett, Priests, Prelates and People: A History of European Catholicism since 1750 (2003). Read More Read Less