Anglo-American policy towards the free French

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.

שנה

1995

שפה

English

הוצאה

Palgrave Macmillan

מהדורות

1

ISBN

9781283647045

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata