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Anglo-American policy towards the free French
- Title
- Anglo-American policy towards the free French / G.E. Maguire.
- Author
- Maguire, G. E.
- Publication
- New York : St. Martin's Press, 1995.
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- Description
- x, 210 pages; 22 cm.
- Summary
- In June 1940 Charles de Gaulle, the little-known Under-Secretary of Defence in the last undoubtedly legitimate government of the Third French Republic, rejected the Franco-German Armistice and fled to London in order to recreate a Free France. He became the leader of a tiny dissident movement that was almost entirely funded by the British government. However, four years later this movement had grown into the broad-based and popularly supported Provisional Government of France.
- This amazing transformation took place largely through British and American assistance.
- This book examines how Anglo-American policy toward the Free French was decided and how it was affected by tensions both with the French and between the two English-speaking Allies. It tries to explain the differing attitudes of Britain and the United States and how they were reconciled to shape a more or less common policy. It is also the story of the men who made that policy, and particularly of Churchill, Roosevelt and de Gaulle.
- Series Statement
- St. Antony's/Macmillan series
- Uniform Title
- St. Antony's/Macmillan series (St. Martin's Press)
- Subject
- Note
- "In association with St. Antony's College, Oxford."
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 1. De Gaulle in London and the Formation of Free France, 1940-42 -- 2. Free France and the United States, 1940-42 -- 3. Lebanon and Syria -- 4. North Africa, 1940-42 -- 5. Unity? 1943-44 -- 6. The Anglo-Americans and the Resistance in France -- 7. The Financial Link -- 8. The Provisional Government of France, 1944-45 -- 9. 'Our Mutual Headache': Churchill, Roosevelt and de Gaulle.
- ISBN
- 0312127103 (cloth)
- LCCN
- 95011453
- OCLC
- 32202526
- ocm32202526
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries