Roosevelt And De Gaulle
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Author | : Raoul Aglion |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
In this riveting personal history, Aglion, de Gaulle's trusted emissary who established the Free France delegation in the United States, explains the personal and political factors which bred Franklin Roosevelt and Charles de Gaulle's intense mutual animosity. Black-and-white photos.
Author | : Simon Berthon |
Publisher | : Thistle Publishing |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2013-08-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781909869097 |
ALLIES AT WAR recreates the turbulent and dramatic wartime relationship between three titanic leaders who, in the public view, were on the same side: the American President, Franklin Rooseve But behind the scenes they fought viciously and cunningly in pursuit of their own agendas. 'De Gaulle is a very dangerous threat to us, ' accused Roosevelt. 'De Gaulle is a man opportunist, unscrupulous, ambitious to the last decree' complained Churchill. 'We must have no relationship with the Anglo-Saxons under any circumstances and at whatever cost', warned de Gaulle. Hatred, rivalry, and hasty judgements underpinned a unique emotional triangle, as well as occasional outbreaks of mutual respect and love. With extensive research and newly uncovered wartime papers, Allies at War provides an extraordinary insight into these complex men and the post-war legacy of their embittered alliance. 'Allies at War is particularly good at showing us how events looked at the time, rather than how they would later seem.' - Daily Telegraph 'A cracker' - The Independent 'Full of astonishing revelations and insights' - The Guardian
Author | : Cornelis A. van Minnen |
Publisher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780312067120 |
Author | : Julian Jackson |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 866 |
Release | : 2018-06-18 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1846143527 |
A SUNDAY TIMES, THE TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN, SPECTATOR, FINANCIAL TIMES, TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Masterly ... awesome reading ... an outstanding biography' Max Hastings, Sunday Times The definitive biography of the greatest French statesman of modern times In six weeks in the early summer of 1940, France was over-run by German troops and quickly surrendered. The French government of Marshal Pétain sued for peace and signed an armistice. One little-known junior French general, refusing to accept defeat, made his way to England. On 18 June he spoke to his compatriots over the BBC, urging them to rally to him in London. 'Whatever happens, the flame of French resistance must not be extinguished and will not be extinguished.' At that moment, Charles de Gaulle entered into history. For the rest of the war, de Gaulle frequently bit the hand that fed him. He insisted on being treated as the true embodiment of France, and quarrelled violently with Churchill and Roosevelt. He was prickly, stubborn, aloof and self-contained. But through sheer force of personality and bloody-mindedness he managed to have France recognised as one of the victorious Allies, occupying its own zone in defeated Germany. For ten years after 1958 he was President of France's Fifth Republic, which he created and which endures to this day. His pursuit of 'a certain idea of France' challenged American hegemony, took France out of NATO and twice vetoed British entry into the European Community. His controversial decolonization of Algeria brought France to the brink of civil war and provoked several assassination attempts. Julian Jackson's magnificent biography reveals this the life of this titanic figure as never before. It draws on a vast range of published and unpublished memoirs and documents - including the recently opened de Gaulle archives - to show how de Gaulle achieved so much during the War when his resources were so astonishingly few, and how, as President, he put a medium-rank power at the centre of world affairs. No previous biography has depicted his paradoxes so vividly. Much of French politics since his death has been about his legacy, and he remains by far the greatest French leader since Napoleon.
Author | : Simon Berthon |
Publisher | : HarperCollins Publishers |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
The book of the BBC TV series. We must divorce ourselves from de Gaulle because he has proven to be unreliable, unco-operative and disloyal to both our governments, Winston Churchill to Franklin Roosevelt, 17 June 1943.
Author | : Charles L. Robertson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : France |
ISBN | : 9781558498808 |
The intriguing tale of an important but nearly forgotten episode in French-American relations
Author | : Ray Argyle |
Publisher | : Dundurn |
Total Pages | : 578 |
Release | : 2014-08-02 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1459722884 |
At a crucial moment in the Second World War, an obscure French general reaches a fateful personal decision: to fight on alone after his government’s flight from Paris and its capitulation to Nazi Germany. Amid the ravages of a world war, three men — a general, a president, and a prime minister — are locked in a rivalry that threatens their partnership and puts the world’s most celebrated city at risk of destruction before it can be liberated. This is the setting of The Paris Game, a dramatic recounting of how an obscure French general under sentence of death by his government launches on the most enormous gamble of his life: to fight on alone after his country’s capitulation to Nazi Germany. In a game of intrigue and double-dealing, Charles de Gaulle must struggle to retain the loyalty of Winston Churchill against the unforgiving opposition of Franklin Roosevelt and the traitorous manoeuvring of a collaborationist Vichy France. How he succeeds in restoring the honour of France and securing its place as a world power is the stuff of raw history, both stirring and engrossing.
Author | : William R. Keylor |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 377 |
Release | : 2020-12-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1442236760 |
In this definitive history, William R. Keylor traces the tumultuous relationship between Charles de Gaulle and a host of other key twentieth-century figures: his former mentor Marshal Philippe Pétain, who headed the collaborationist government in the southern French city of Vichy as the German army occupied the northern two-thirds of the country; Sir Winston Churchill, the British prime minister whose government supported and financed de Gaulle and the Free French, but who clashed with the French leader on a number of hot-button issues; and, most critically, the six American presidents from FDR to Nixon. Keylor uses the metaphor “thorn in the side” to emphasize the fact that challenges from the intrepid French leader were often an annoyance to the Americans, who all had many more important issues to deal with—World War II for Roosevelt and Truman, the Cold War for Eisenhower, and the Vietnam War for Kennedy and Johnson. Richard Nixon alone had an excellent relationship, but the two men overlapped for only four months before de Gaulle’s retirement. Thoroughly researched and deeply knowledgeable, this gripping book will appeal to all readers interested in contemporary French and US history.
Author | : François Kersaudy |
Publisher | : Scribner Paper Fiction |
Total Pages | : 476 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : France |
ISBN | : 9780689706417 |
Author | : Douglas Boyd |
Publisher | : The History Press |
Total Pages | : 441 |
Release | : 2013-07-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0752497332 |
After watching a D-Day film, do youwonder why no French units took part in the invasion of their own German-occupied country? General Charles De Gaulle commanded 400,000 Free French soldiers, but US President Roosevelt insisted they not be told the date of the invasion because he intended to occupy France and open the country up to American Big Business, while keeping in office traitors who had run the country for Hitler. This would have sparked a civil war, but De Gaulle outwitted Washington to head the first government of liberated France. Disgusted with the professional politicians, he resigned in 1946. but twelve years later, to save France from civil war a second time, he was elected President of the Republic. After Roosevelt’s death, he defied presidents Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon.Drawing on hitherto unpublished and revealing material from the archives in Paris and Washington, this thought-provoking account of a great European’s rejection of foreign domination has significant resonance for modern Britain, whose governments are subservient both to Washington and Brussels.