ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE ALLY: HAROLD MACMILLAN AND CHARLES DE GAULLE.
Publisher: I.B. TAURIS; I.B.Tauris; Brand: I. B. Tauris
Published: Feb 21, 2006
Place of publication: LONDON
Language: und; eng
Number of pages: 272
Description: "On 14 January 1963, General de Gaulle (described by the Foreign Office as an 'almost impossible ally') brutally vetoed Britain's first bid to join the Common Market. It was a blow that delayed Britain's entry for a decade and hastened the end of Harold Macmillan's political career." "Pater Mangold writes about the personal duel that shaped high politics and Anglo-French diplomacy. He portrays two of the most complex and skilful leaders of the post-war era, old friends from their association in Algiers during World War II: de Gaulle the dour, lofty moralist obsessed with high notions of France; and Macmillan, the canny, ambitious fixer, always the pragmatist seeking to get things done."

"The Almost Impossible Ally is a story of friendship turned sour, and of a compelling new episode in the turbulent relations between Britain and France."--Jacket.