Dr Karine Varley

Dr Karine Varley is a Lecturer in French and European History at the University of Strathclyde. She has published widely on the Second World War and the Franco-Prussian War. Her publications include The Franco-Prussian War: Turning-Points in European Experiences and Perceptions of Military Conflict (Routledge, 2024),
Vichy's Double Bind: French Collaboration Between Hitler and Mussolini during the Second World War (Cambridge University Press, 2023), A Fascist Decade of War: 1935-45 in International Perspective (Routledge, 2020) and Under the Shadow of Defeat: The War of 1870-71 in French Memory (Palgrave, 2008). She has also worked on UK-French relations in the Second World War, collaborating with British Embassy in Paris and the French Embassy in London. Her current project explores the Allied bombing of France during the Second World War.