The Paris game : Charles de Gaulle, the liberation of Paris, and the gamble that won France / Ray Argyle ; foreword by Maurice Vaïsse.
The Paris game : Charles de Gaulle, the liberation of Paris, and the gamble that won France / Ray Argyle ; foreword by Maurice Vaïsse.
By
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Argyle, Ray.
Publication Date
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2014
Publication Information
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Toronto, ON : Dundurn Press,
Physical Description
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485 p. ; ills.
Subject Term
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Generals -- France -- Biography.
Geographic Term
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Paris (France) -- History -- 1940-1944.
France -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945.
Bibliography Note
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary
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Amid the ravages of a world war, three men — a general, a president, and a prime minister — are locked in a rivalry that threatens their partnership and puts the world's most celebrated city at risk of destruction before it can be liberated. This is the setting of The Paris Game, a dramatic recounting of how an obscure French general under sentence of death by his government launches on the most enormous gamble of his life: to fight on alone after his country's capitulation to Nazi Germany. In a game of intrigue and double-dealing, Charles de Gaulle must struggle to retain the loyalty of Winston Churchill against the unforgiving opposition of Franklin Roosevelt and the traitorous manoeuvring of a collaborationist Vichy France. How he succeeds in restoring the honour of France and securing its place as a world power is the stuff of raw history, both stirring and engrossing.
Language
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English
ISBN
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9781459722866
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Grand Falls-Windsor (CGF) Harmsworth | Adult NFic | Adult Non-Fiction | 940.53 AR3 | Checked In |
Happy Valley - Goose Bay (LHV) Melville | Adult NFic | Adult Non-Fiction | 940.53 AR3 | Checked In |