Author: Marcel VignerasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Rearming the French
Author: Marcel VignerasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Rearming the French
Author: Marcel VignerasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
The reemergence of French national forces in the war against the Axis Powers, and the role of large-scale American aid.
Rearming the French
Author: Marcel VignerasPublisher:
ISBN: 9781410205001
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
In rearming the French the War Department and the U. S. Army became agents of an Allied policy which not only enabled the United States to further a friendship for France that dated from the Revolution, but in addition served the military interests of both nations. It equipped Frenchmen with the means to fight and by so doing increased at minimum cost the forces available to the United Nations. The Army can take pride in the success with which it administered a policy involving both political and military matters. The policy of mutual aid has since been extended throughout the world with the Army again designated as the agency principally responsible for its administration. The present thorough and objective study of an early large-scale American experiment with mutual aid should therefore be highly instructive to all concerned.
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Author: United States. Department of the Army. Office of Military HistoryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Rearming the French in World War II.
Author: Monro MacCloskeyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Rearming the French
Author: United States. ArmyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
United States Army in World War II
Author: United States. Military History, Office of the Chief ofPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Rearming the French
Author: Marcel VignerasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
The reemergence of French national forces in the war against the Axis Powers, and the role of large-scale American aid.
Rearming the French
Author: Marcel VignerasWhen France Fell
Author: Michael S. NeibergPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674258568
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Shocked by the fall of France in 1940, panicked US leaders rushed to back the Vichy governmentÑa fateful decision that nearly destroyed the AngloÐAmerican alliance. According to US Secretary of War Henry Stimson, the Òmost shocking single eventÓ of World War II was not the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, but rather the fall of France in spring 1940. Michael Neiberg offers a dramatic history of the American responseÑa policy marked by panic and moral ineptitude, which placed the United States in league with fascism and nearly ruined the alliance with Britain. The successful Nazi invasion of France destabilized American plannersÕ strategic assumptions. At home, the result was huge increases in defense spending, the advent of peacetime military conscription, and domestic spying to weed out potential fifth columnists. Abroad, the United States decided to work with Vichy France despite its pro-Nazi tendencies. The USÐVichy partnership, intended to buy time and temper the flames of war in Europe, severely strained AngloÐAmerican relations. American leaders naively believed that they could woo men like Philippe Ptain, preventing France from becoming a formal German ally. The British, however, understood that Vichy was subservient to Nazi Germany and instead supported resistance figures such as Charles de Gaulle. After the war, the choice to back Vichy tainted USÐFrench relations for decades. Our collective memory of World War II as a period of American strength overlooks the desperation and faulty decision making that drove US policy from 1940 to 1943. Tracing the key diplomatic and strategic moves of these formative years, When France Fell gives us a more nuanced and complete understanding of the war and of the global position the United States would occupy afterward.