In 1942 Rebatet published a lengthy pamphlet entitled "Les Décombres" ("The Ruins"), in which he traced the forces he believed to have led France to its fall. He firmly accused Third Republic politicians and its military leadership, as well as French Jews - who he claimed were the prime cause of France's political and military woes. "Les Décombres" is the clearest expression of Rebatet's fascism, as well as his most virulently antisemitic work. The same year, he began writing "Les Deux étendards" ("The Two Standards"), his first novel.