The Life and Times of the 1f50 Pétain Issue presented by Mick Bister, Committee Member of the France & Colonies Philatelic Society (UK).
The 1f50 Pétain stamp, ubiquitous on French mail during the World War II period during which he headed the puppet government based at Vichy, embodies the political, military and social consequences of the Axis Occupation.
The presentation of covers and ephemera explores, inter alia, the German and Italian annexations, interzone activity, censorship, POW welfare and youth camps, covert mail and Resistance forgeries and, finally, the Allied invasion and liberation of France.