Research Catalog

Title

• Hostile allies: FDR and Charles de Gaulle.

Author

Viorst, Milton

Publication

New York, Macmillan [c1965]

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Details

Description

viii, 280 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

Analysis of the character and differing perspectives of the U.S. and French leader, that sees a continuing personal and national incompatibility between the two countries.

Subject

• 1939-1945
• France > Politics and government > 1940-1945
• Gaulle, Charles de, 1890-1970
• Roosevelt, Franklin D. 1882-1945
• Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld
• World War, 1939-1945 > Diplomatic history
• World War, 1939-1945 > France

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• Biographies.
• Biography

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 251-256.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Weak reed in the crisis -- The spurning of the rebel -- Courtship of the dishonorable -- Enlarging the breach -- The search for a stand-in -- Faulty premises, grievous consequences -- The president picks his Frenchman -- The ideological wedge -- De Gaulle consolidates -- Conquest or liberation -- The restoration contest -- Bitterness in triumph.

LCCN

^^^65010382^

OCLC

264169

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library