14.0%OFF
Download App
| >> | LShop | >> | Book | >> | Humanities | >> | History | >> | Britain And The Defe... |
14.0%OFF
Britain and the Defeated French: From Occupation to Liberation, 1940-1944
-
ISBN
:
9781848854314
-
Publisher
:
I. B. Tauris
-
Subject
:
History
-
Binding
:
HARDCOVER
-
Pages
:
336
-
Year
:
2012
₹
2127.0
14.0% OFF
₹
1829.0
1829.0
Buy Now
Shipping charges are applicable for books below Rs. 101.0
View Details(Imported Edition) Estimated Shipping Time : 20-23 Business Days
View Details
-
Description
The four years between the military defeat of France by Nazi Germany and D-Day were vital, dramatic and eventful years in Anglo-French relations. These years saw the first armed clashes between France and Britain since the Napoleonic Wars, including the infamous Royal Navy attack on the French fleet at Mers-el-Kebir. They also saw a curious relationship developing between Britain and Vichy France. Vichy was at once a hostile power, under German domination, and at the same time a porous regime through which British influence on its politics, attitudes towards the Resistance and the transit of British soldiers and airmen through its territory en route to Spain, could flow quite freely. Britain had an ambivalent attitude towards Vichy - obviously adversarial, but also pragmatic. The history of Vichy France is often viewed as a sideshow in the overall context of World War II. However, Peter Mangold here shows that the Vichy attitude towards the allies, especially the British, was ambivalent and complex. His absorbing and up-to-date account, based on original historical research, highlights the conflicts within the Vichy regime and the ways in which contacts and connections with de Gaulle in London and the British Government were maintained. This exciting and fast-paced book brings to life the major characters in the story - not only Churchill and de Gaulle, but also Macmillan, Petain and Leclerc. In this book, Mangold deftly reassesses the complex international wartime chessboard and, in the process, reveals a little known aspect of the World War II story.
-
Author Biography
Peter Mangold is a journalist and author and a Senior Associate Member of St Antony's College, Oxford. He is a former member of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Research Department and the BBC World Service. He is the author of 'The Almost Impossible Ally: Harold Macmillan and Charles de Gaulle'.
Related Items
-
of
-
OFFER
Success and Failure in British Foreign Policy: Evaluating the Record, 1900-2000 St Antony"e;s Series
Peter Mangold
Starts At
12282.0
12794.0
4% OFF
-
OFFER
Britain After Rome (The Penguin History of Britain) (Vol 2)
Robin Fleming
Starts At
487.0
650.0
25% OFF
-
OFFER
Altered Memories of the Great War: Divergent Narratives of Britain, Australia, New Zealand and Canada (International Library of War Studies)
Mark David Sheftall
Starts At
4233.0
5799.0
27% OFF
-
OFFER
The Festival of Britain: A Land and Its People
Harriet Atkinson
Starts At
1397.0
1914.0
27% OFF
-
OFFER
Labour and the Politics of Empire: Britain and Australia, 1900 to the Present (Studies in Imperialism)
NevilleKirk
Starts At
11143.0
15695.0
29% OFF
-
OFFER
Queenship in Britain 1660-1837: Royal Patronage, Court Culture and Dynastic Politics
Clarissa Campbell Orr
Starts At
1319.0
1808.0
27% OFF
-
OFFER
Race and Representation: Electoral Politics and Ethnic Pluralism in Britain
Shamit Saggar
Starts At
1475.0
2021.0
27% OFF
-
OFFER
The First Industrial Nation: The Economic History of Britain 1700-1914
Peter Mathias
Starts At
1697.0
2233.0
24% OFF
-
OFFER
Cash Flow and Corporate Finance In Victorian Britain: Cases from the British Coal Industry 1860-1914 (History)
Trevor Baldwin
Starts At
7660.0
7980.0
4% OFF
-
OFFER
Domestic Wooden Artefacts: in Britain and Ireland from Neolithic to Viking Times
Caroline Earwood
Starts At
7660.0
7980.0
4% OFF
-
OFFER
Britain and America After World War II: Bilateral Relations and the Beginnings of the Cold War (International Library of Twentieth Century History)
Richard Wevill
Starts At
4621.0
6331.0
27% OFF
-
OFFER
Resurgent Adventures with Britannia: Personalities, Politics and Culture in Britain
Wm. Roger Louis
Starts At
1180.0
1595.0
26% OFF
-
OFFER
Still More Adventures with Britannia: Personalities, Politics and Culture in Britain
William Roger Louis
Starts At
2139.0
2815.0
24% OFF
-
OFFER
Nobilities in Transition: Courtiers and Rebels in Britain and Europe (1550 - 1700)
Ronald G. Asch
Starts At
1616.0
2127.0
24% OFF
