The Assassination of Jacques Lemaigre Dubreuil: A Frenchman between France and North Africa

by William A. Hoisington Jr.

Book Overview

This is a political biography of the French industrialist and political activist Jacques Lemaigre Dubreuil (1894-1955), president of the Taxpayers' Federation in the 1930s, entrepreneur in wartime France and Africa, organizer of the 'Group of Five' in Algiers which prepared for the Allied landings in North Africa (November 1942), 'inventor' of General Henri Giraud as a candidate for the leadership of liberated North and West Africa, negotiator of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415350328
• ISBN13: 9780415350327
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 199 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 9.5"