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Book Synopsis The Enigma of Admiral Darlan by : Alec De Montmorency
Download or read book The Enigma of Admiral Darlan written by Alec De Montmorency and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2017-07-19 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The enigma of Admiral Darlan is a part of the great French tragedy. His vertiginous rise to power in the very midst of the French catastrophe, his enigmatic wranglings with the Germans, his defiance of the natural friends of France, his insistence on questions of national pride when it seemed to the world that France could not afford any further pride, his feat in imposing his conditions on the Allies in North Africa, and his cruel death on that Christmas Eve, are all part of a great riddle in the tragedy of France. [...] This book was written in incomplete form before the Allied invasion of North Africa; but since then, and since the Admiral’s death, it has been possible to add many important details connected with his differences with the British and with his negotiations with the Axis Powers—details which at that time it would have been both undesirable and impossible to include.
Book Synopsis The Man Who Murdered Admiral Darlan by : Bénédicte Vergez-Chaignon
Download or read book The Man Who Murdered Admiral Darlan written by Bénédicte Vergez-Chaignon and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-31 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In November 1942 Anglo-American forces landed in French North Africa, which soon afterwards broke with Marshal Pétain’s Vichy regime in France and re-entered the war on the Allies’ side. On Christmas Eve the high commissioner Admiral François Darlan was assassinated in Algiers. Why? Like the press and public opinion in Britain and America, General Charles de Gaulle’s Free French movement and the resistance in France were appalled that the Allies had allowed Darlan to retain office, even though as prime minister under Pétain he had previously advocated military collaboration with Nazi Germany. Few mourned Darlan’s death, many were relieved, some were jubilant. His killer was Fernand Bonnier de la Chapelle. Who was this twenty year old and what drove him to murder? Bénédicte Vergez-Chaignon paints a sympathetic portrait of the young idealist manipulated by local resistance leaders. As she tells Bonnier’s story, the author illuminates the imbroglio of North Africa’s competing political forces. She traces Bonnier’s short life, the assassination, his court-martial and execution within 48 hours, the subsequent judicial investigations which became bogged down in the complex rivalry between the Allies, the remnants of the Vichy regime, the Resistance and other factions. The story ends with Bonnier’s posthumous rehabilitation and recognition as a member of the French Resistance. Bonnier’s biography reads like an absorbing novel, with its twists and turns, reconstructed dialogue and author’s acute observations. As well as being a tragic human story, It is an illuminating study of the convoluted political context of the affair, which will be unfamiliar to some Anglophone readers. It is an academically rigorous piece of original research, based in part on previously inaccessible family archives Bénédicte Vergez-Chaignon’s story of Darlan’s assassination was received in France as * ‘a shocking book and a historian’s great work’ (Le Patriote Résistant) * ‘a detailed enquiry ... bordering on a detective novel which brings out the conspiratorial atmosphere reigning in Algiers in the wake of the Allied landing of 8 November 1942’ (Le Monde des Livres) * it ‘shows the extent to which the 1940s were years of complete ambiguity’ (Le Figaro Littéraire) * ‘Bénédicte Vergez-Chaignon, a meticulous historian, paints the portrait of a young idealist dying to wash away the stain of defeat’ (Midi Libre).
Download or read book LIFE written by and published by . This book was released on 1946-02-04 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.
Download or read book Darlan written by George Melton and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1998-05-26 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Admiral Jean François Darlan's Western legacy is that of an opportunist, a fascist collaborator, or, at worst, a traitor during France's struggle for survival in the early years of World War II. This study, however, based upon new research from French, English, and German archival sources, paints a different picture. With a career beginning during the height of France's imperial power and lasting until the nation's rapid wartime decline, Darlan was a pragmatic statesman, a guardian of naval preparedness, a stout opponent of fascism, an earnest patron of the Anglo-French Alliance, and an advocate of combined naval power in the Mediterranean. He defended French naval and colonial interests against all foreign powers before and during the war, and his success in this area eventually resulted in his assassination. Darlan's career was characterized by his loyal service to his government and nation. One of the first to recognize the German threat, he openly favored naval rearmament in the early 1930s. He was also instrumental in the success of the 1937 Nyon Conference on Mediterranean security, which was the only prewar military effort against fascist aggression. During the occupation, Darlan pursued diplomacy to ease the burdens of the French people. Yet, these very negotiations with the Germans, along with his bitter reaction to Britain's surprise attack against the French fleet at Mers el-Kéebir, would result in his reputation as an opportunist and a collaborator with the fascists. This examination of the man whose murder would ease the way for Charles de Gaulle will captivate anyone interested in the political intrigues of World War II.
Book Synopsis The Murder of Admiral Darlan by : Peter Tompkins
Download or read book The Murder of Admiral Darlan written by Peter Tompkins and published by London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 1965 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the plots and counterplots that led to the death of Vichy's Fleet Admiral on Christmas Eve 1942, and to the Allied conquest of French North Africa.
Book Synopsis Dwight D. Eisenhower by : Jean Darby
Download or read book Dwight D. Eisenhower written by Jean Darby and published by Twenty-First Century Books. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the commanding general of the Allied forces in Europe during World War II who became the thirty-fourth president of the United States.
Download or read book Ike's Spies written by Stephen E. Ambrose and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1999 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Behind Ike's grandfatherly mask, the free world's foremost spymaster
Download or read book The Last Lion written by Paul Reid and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2012-11-06 with total page 1232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The long-awaited final volume of William Manchester's legendary biography of Winston Churchill. Spanning the years of 1940-1965, The Last Lion picks up shortly after Winston Churchill became Prime Minister-when his tiny island nation stood alone against the overwhelming might of Nazi Germany. The Churchill conjured up by William Manchester and Paul Reid is a man of indomitable courage, lightning-fast intellect, and an irresistible will to action. The Last Lion brilliantly recounts how Churchill organized his nation's military response and defense, compelled FDR into supporting America's beleaguered cousins, and personified the "never surrender" ethos that helped the Allies win the war, while at the same time adapting himself and his country to the inevitable shift of world power from the British Empire to the United States. More than twenty years in the making, The Last Lion presents a revelatory and unparalleled portrait of this brilliant, flawed, and dynamic leader. This is popular history at its most stirring.
Download or read book Vichy France written by Robert O. Paxton and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A disturbing account of the Vichy period, demonstrating how in the interests of stability, French national feeling favored collboration with the German-controlled regime.
Book Synopsis Historical Dictionary of the 1940s by : James Gilbert Ryan
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of the 1940s written by James Gilbert Ryan and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 2006 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains entries for individuals, institutions, and events, focusing mostly on the U.S. Entries cover topics in science, history, literature, theater and entertainment, and many other areas.
Download or read book War of Words written by Rachel Chin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-07-21 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyses the imperial clashes in the Franco-British relationship during the Second World War.
Book Synopsis The Supreme Commander by : Stephen E. Ambrose
Download or read book The Supreme Commander written by Stephen E. Ambrose and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2012-01-17 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this classic portrait of Dwight D. Eisenhower the soldier, bestselling historian Stephen E. Ambrose examines the Allied commander’s leadership during World War II. Ambrose brings Eisenhower’s experience of the Second World War to life, showing in vivid detail how the general’s skill as a diplomat and a military strategist contributed to Allied successes in North Africa and in Europe, and established him as one of the greatest military leaders in the world. Ambrose, then the Associate Editor of the General’s official papers, analyzes Eisenhower’s difficult military decisions and his often complicated relationships with powerful personalities like Churchill, de Gaulle, Roosevelt, and Patton. This is the definitive account of Eisenhower’s evolution as a military leader—from its dramatic beginnings through his time at the top post of Allied command.
Book Synopsis Marshal Pétain by : Richard Griffiths
Download or read book Marshal Pétain written by Richard Griffiths and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2011-05-19 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marshal Philippe Pétain was, in the words of historian Andrew Roberts, 'the most controversial Frenchman of the twentieth century.' A truly distinguished soldier who rose from humble origins, he commanded French forces at Verdun in 1916 and became a national hero. But though by 1940 he had become French Deputy Prime Minister his political abilities were meagre. And after France fell to the Nazis it was Pétain who signed the armistice and, from the spa town of Vichy, ruled over the Etat Francais Hitler had left him. Richard Griffiths tells this sorry story in outstanding detail, all the way to Pétain's ignominious end, and not stinting to show his culpability in the Vichy persecution of French Jews and its suppression of the internal Resistance. 'Petain, utterly obscure until the age of 58, was hurled to fame by his defence of Verdun in 1916. This saved his country's bacon (he would say her honour) at a crisis point of the Great War. Thereafter he became an almost monarchical figure, more revered than any living Frenchman, even after the disaster of 1940. But then, as head of the puppet Vichy government, he slid into ignominy after failing to square honour with military humiliation. Griffiths's durable biography... paints not a devil but a courageous, misguided man with a hole where others keep their political acumen.' Robin Blake, Independent
Book Synopsis Defeat and Division by : Douglas Porch
Download or read book Defeat and Division written by Douglas Porch and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-25 with total page 745 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Defeat and Division launches a definitive new account of France in the Second World War. In this first volume, Douglas Porch dissects France's 1940 collapse, the dynamics of occupation, and the rise of Charles de Gaulle's Free France crusade, culminating in the November 1942 Allied invasion of French North Africa. He captures the full sweep of France's wartime experience in Europe, Africa, and beyond, from soldiers and POWs to civilians-in-arms, colonial subjects, and foreign refugees. He recounts France's struggles to reconstruct military power within the context of a global conflict, with its armed forces shattered into warring factions and the country under Axis occupation. Disagreements over the causes of the 1940 debacle and the subsequent requirement for the armistice mirrored long-standing fractures in politics, society, and the French military itself, as efforts to reconstitute French military power crumbled into Vichy collaboration, De Gaulle's exile resistance, Alsace-Moselle occupation struggles, and a scuffle for imperial supremacy.
Book Synopsis British Foreign Policy in the Second World War by : Ernest Llewellyn Woodward
Download or read book British Foreign Policy in the Second World War written by Ernest Llewellyn Woodward and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis France: The Dark Years, 1940-1944 by : Julian Jackson
Download or read book France: The Dark Years, 1940-1944 written by Julian Jackson and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2003-03-05 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The French call them 'the Dark Years'... This definitive new history of Occupied France explores the myths and realities of four of the most divisive years in French history. Taking in ordinary people's experiences of defeat, collaboration, resistance, and liberation, it uncovers the conflicting memories of occupation which ensure that even today France continues to debate the legacy of the Vichy years.
Book Synopsis End of the Affair by : Eleanor M. Gates
Download or read book End of the Affair written by Eleanor M. Gates and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1981.
