The Republic in Danger: General Maurice Gamelin and the Politics of French Defence, 1933 1940

by Martin S. Alexander

Book Overview

This is the first full-length reappraisal in English of the role of France's chief of defense forces, General Maurice Gamelin (1872-1958). Reviled by many of his contemporaries and by two generations of historians as the man who lost the Battle of France in 1940, Gamelin is here presented as a man seeking to provide France with security and armed readiness in the face of the aggression and expansionism of Hitler's Third Reich. The reader sees him...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521524296
• ISBN13: 9780521524292
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 588 Pages
• Weight: 1.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"