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France's First Resistance: The Free French Movement in World War Two

France's First Resistance: The Free French Movement in World War Two

Carswell, Richard

Hardcover

French HistoryGeneral Political ScienceWorld War II

PREORDER - Expected ship date February 18, 2027

ISBN10: 1350329312
ISBN13: 9781350329317
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: Feb 18 2027
Pages: 448
Weight: 1.00
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Using a wealth of archival resources, Richard Carswell here examines the global story of the Free French movement during the Second World War. Moving beyond the story of leader, General Charles de Gaulle, and the history of internal resistance in France, Carswell traces the involvement of all those men and women who refused to accept France's defeat by Germany in 1940 and who resolved to continue the struggle one way or another outside metropolitan France.

France's First Resistance reflects on the Free French movement as a complex network of 'micro-societies', separated geographically yet united in their common goal of liberating France. It considers how this network stretched from de Gaulle's headquarters at Carlton Gardens in London to Free French soldiers fighting in Africa, the Middle East and Europe, to colonial governors in the South Pacific, Africa and elsewhere, to agents parachuted into France, to the Free French support committees that sprung up in North and South America and many other countries.

The book also analyses the many debates and controversies surrounding the Free French movement, including:

* the Free French movement's difficult birth in time and space

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