Anglo-American policy towards the free French
By: G.E. Maguire.
Series: St. Antony's series
Publisher: St. Martin's Press; PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 -- Diplomatic history.; France -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain.; Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- France.; United States -- Foreign relations -- France.; France -- Foreign relations -- United States.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 188-196) and index.
"In association with St. Antony's College, Oxford."