UID:
almafu_9959148385402883
Format:
1 online resource (163 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-134-26841-6
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1-134-26842-4
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1-280-17695-4
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0-203-00496-5
Series Statement:
History and society in the Islamic world
Content:
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 the Murphy-Giraud Agreements and the Anfa Memorandum with President Roosevelt (1942 and 1943), political writer on the postwar future of France in Mo
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Plates; Acknowledgements; Preface; 1 Taxpayer revolt in France; 2 France's fall and the Vichy change; 3 Defending French Africa; 4 Working for Giraud; 5 To die in Casablanca; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-58946-0
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-35032-8
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9780203004968
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