General de Gaulle's Cold War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook General de Gaulle's Cold War write by Garret Joseph Martin. This book was released on 2013-09-01. General de Gaulle's Cold War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The greatest threat to the Western alliance in the 1960s did not come from an enemy, but from an ally. France, led by its mercurial leader General Charles de Gaulle, launched a global and comprehensive challenge to the United State’s leadership of the Free World, tackling not only the political but also the military, economic, and monetary spheres. Successive American administrations fretted about de Gaulle, whom they viewed as an irresponsible nationalist at best and a threat to their presence in Europe at worst. Based on extensive international research, this book is an original analysis of France’s ambitious grand strategy during the 1960s and why it eventually failed. De Gaulle’s failed attempt to overcome the Cold War order reveals important insights about why the bipolar international system was able to survive for so long, and why the General’s legacy remains significant to current French foreign policy.
Globalizing de Gaulle
Globalizing de Gaulle - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Globalizing de Gaulle write by Christian Nuenlist. This book was released on 2010-04-27. Globalizing de Gaulle available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. French President Charles de Gaulle (1958-1969) has consistently fascinated contemporaries and historians. His vision_conceived out of national interest_of uniting Europe under French leadership and overcoming the Cold War still remains relevant and appealing. De Gaulle's towering personality and his challenge to US hegemony in the Cold War have inspired a vast number of political biographies and analyses of the foreign policies of the Fifth Republic mostly from French or US angle. In contrast, this book serves to rediscover de Gaulle's global policies how they changed the Cold War. Offering truly global perspectives on France's approach to the world during de Gaulle's presidency, the 13 well-matched essays by leading experts in the field tap into newly available sources drawn from US, European, Asian, African and Latin American archives. Together, the contributions integrate previously neglected regions, actors and topics with more familiar and newly approached phenomena into a global picture of the General's international policy-making. The volume at hand is an example of how cutting-edge research benefits from multipolar and multi-archival approaches and from attention to big, middle and smaller powers as well as institutions.
The General
The General - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The General write by Jonathan Fenby. This book was released on 2013-07. The General available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. No leader of modern times was more uniquely patriotic than Charles de Gaulle. In his twenties, he fought for France in the trenches and at the epic battle of Verdun. In the 1930s, he waged a lonely battle to enable France to better resist Hitler Germany. Thereafter, he twice rescued the nation from defeat and decline by extraordinary displays of leadership, political acumen, daring, and bluff, heading off civil war and leaving a heritage adopted by his successors of right and left. Le General, as he became known from 1940 on, appeared as if he was carved from a single monumental block, but was in fact extremely complex, a man with deep personal feelings and recurrent mood swings, devoted to his family and often seeking reassurance from those around him. This is a magisterial, sweeping biography of one of the great leaders of the twentieth century and of the country with which he so identified himself. Written with terrific verve, narrative skill, and rigorous detail, the first major work on de Gaulle in fifteen years brings alive as never before the private man as well as the public leader. -- Publisher description.
Charles de Gaulle
Charles de Gaulle - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Charles de Gaulle write by William R. Keylor. This book was released on 2020-12-07. Charles de Gaulle available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this definitive history, William R. Keylor traces the tumultuous relationship between Charles de Gaulle and a host of other key twentieth-century figures: his former mentor Marshal Philippe Pétain, who headed the collaborationist government in the southern French city of Vichy as the German army occupied the northern two-thirds of the country; Sir Winston Churchill, the British prime minister whose government supported and financed de Gaulle and the Free French, but who clashed with the French leader on a number of hot-button issues; and, most critically, the six American presidents from FDR to Nixon. Keylor uses the metaphor “thorn in the side” to emphasize the fact that challenges from the intrepid French leader were often an annoyance to the Americans, who all had many more important issues to deal with—World War II for Roosevelt and Truman, the Cold War for Eisenhower, and the Vietnam War for Kennedy and Johnson. Richard Nixon alone had an excellent relationship, but the two men overlapped for only four months before de Gaulle’s retirement. Thoroughly researched and deeply knowledgeable, this gripping book will appeal to all readers interested in contemporary French and US history.
Mitterrand, the End of the Cold War, and German Unification
Mitterrand, the End of the Cold War, and German Unification - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mitterrand, the End of the Cold War, and German Unification write by Frédéric Bozo. This book was released on 2009-10. Mitterrand, the End of the Cold War, and German Unification available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores the role of France in the events leading up to the end of the Cold War and German unification. --from publisher description.
