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The Republic in Danger - General Maurice Gamelin and the Politics of French Defence, 1933-1940 (Hardcover, New)
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The Republic in Danger - General Maurice Gamelin and the Politics of French Defence, 1933-1940 (Hardcover, New)
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This is the first full-length study in English of the career of one
of France's most controversial military leaders, General Maurice
Gamelin (1872-1958). Gamelin was reviled by many of his
contemporaries and denigrated by historians as 'the man who lost
the Battle of France'. Here Gamelin is re-appraised in the context
of the unstable civil-military relations and national decline of
the years 1933-40. Basing his account on hitherto inaccessible
primary sources and on public and private archives. The evidence
reviewed, including Gamelin's private headquarters' diary, provides
the basis for a revision of the earlier hostile portraits of the
general. The author argues that less attention should be paid to
the campaign in France in 1940, by which time Gamelin's role was
that of co-ordinator and adviser. Rather, he suggests that great
credit is due to Gamelin for his success in holding together the
pre-war civil-military consensus, and for re-arming France by 1939.
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