This book examines the development of the tiny dissident movement that was Free France in 1940 into a broad-based, popularly supported provisional government. This metamorphosis was to a large extent dependent upon Allied support. Therefore this book discusses the individual attitudes of the British and American governments towards the Gaullist movement and tries to explain why they differed and how their points of view were eventually reconciled. In order to do this both the nature of Gaullism and the tensions in the Anglo-American relationship are considered.

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G. E. MAGUIRE

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Acknowledgements - De Gaulle in London and the Formation of Free France, 1940-42 - Free France and the United States, 1940-42 - Lebanon and Syria - North Africa, 1940-42 - Unity, 1943-44? - The Anglo-Americans and the Resistance in France - The Financial Link - The Provisional Government of France, 1944-45 - 'Our Mutual Headache': Churchill, Roosevelt and de Gaulle - Index