De Gaulle and Churchill by Evan McGilvray (Hardback Book)

Name: De Gaulle and Churchill by Evan McGilvray (Hardback Book)
Brand: Pen & Sword Books Ltd

Pen & Sword Books Ltd

De Gaulle and Churchill examines the tense and complicated relationship between General de Gaulle as leader of the Free French on the one hand and Winston Churchill and the British Government on the other.Evan McGilvray shows that De Gaulle was a career soldier, not a politician by any means, prior to 1940 but stepped into the leadership vacuum after the fall of France to provide a vital figurehead and rallying point for the Free French movement. His experiences in WW1, where he had served with distinction and was decorated but then was captured and so missed the nadir of despair expressed in the mutiny of 1917, meant he did not share the general defeatism of his peers in 1940.De Gaulle had demonstrated between the wars that he understood modern warfare and the need for modernization and\n\nDe Gaulle and Churchill\nThe Foundations of a Perplexing Franco-British Relationship, 1940\u20131946\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery using;