Author: WILLIAMS, PHILIP MAYNARD
Title: Wars, plots and scandals in post-war France / Philip M. Williams
Description: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press 1970. First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine. very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw. now mylar-sleeved. Price-clipped. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight. bright. clean and strong.; 8vo 8' - 9' tall; 232 pages; Physical description: vii. 232 p. ; 24 cm. Summary: This collection. first published in 1970. brings together twelve articles on French political subjects. mostly concerned either with the plots and scandals that arose out of the long struggle for decolonisation. or with the culmination of that struggle in the Algerian war. In his introduction as well as throughout the book. Williams demonstrates the connection between these two themes. and explains why political scandals have been so prominent and recurrent a feature of French public life and how these scandals affected both France as well as Algeria. Contents: Preface; Part I. The Burden of History: 1. The politics of scandal; 2. From Dreyfus to Vichy; Part II. Legacy of Empire: Intrigue in Paris: 3. The Generals affair; 4. The Leakages affair; 5. The Mitterrrand affair; 6. The Ben Barka affair; Part III. Legacy of Empire: War in Algeria; 7. The Fourth Republic: murder or suicide?; 8. Moslems and settlers; 9. Algerian conversations; 10. The army and its putsch; Part IV. Learning from History?: 11. Gaullist grandeur: myth or reality; 12. Vietnam: America's Algeria?; Index.ISBN: 0521077419. Weight in Kg appr.:

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