War of words : Britain, France and discourses of empire during the Second World War / Rachel Chin, University of Glasgow.
| Author/creator |
Chin, Rachel, 1987- author. |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2022. |
| Description | x, 288 pages ; 24 cm |
| Subject(s) |
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| Contents | From the Dunkirk evacuations to the Franco-German armistice: renegotiating the Franco-British alliance -- "The real question at issue": British policy and the French fleet -- A necessary tragedy? the British bombardments of the French fleet at Mers el-K̐uebir -- Vichy, the free French and the battle for imperial influence at Dakar in September 1940 -- Promises of independence: Operation Exporter and the struggle for the Levant -- Operation Torch: American influence and the battle for French North Africa -- Independence on French terms: the 1943 Lebanese Parliamentary Crisis -- Holding on to empire: the French bombardment Of Damascus, May 1945 |
| Abstract | "On 22 June 1940 Marshal Philippe P̐uetain's newly-constituted French government signed an armistice with Hitler's Germany. At the same time, a relatively unknown Brigadier General named Charles Andr̐ue Joseph Marie de Gaulle fled to London. De Gaulle became the leader of the Free French movement, which resolved to continue fighting against the Axis powers in the name of France. It pursued this battle symbolically, and eventually, militarily. Three decades later, British Members of Parliament would historicise this moment, and the man at its centre. British Prime Minister Edward Heath would describe de Gaulle's "unconquerable determination to restore France" as "one of the few sure and certain things" in 1940. Liberal Party Leader Jeremy Thorpe would recount a story in which Britain's wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill supposedly greeted de Gaulle with the prophetic words, "here comes the Constable of France."1 In these commemorations, de Gaulle was the undisputed guardian of French honour and the personification of the Franco-British alliance. However, in 1940, and throughout the Second World War, neither de Gaulle's position nor the status of the Franco-British relationship was ever this straightforward"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | ebook version : 9781009302517 |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2022004199 |
| ISBN | 9781009181013 |
| ISBN | 1009181017 (hardback) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
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