Free French Africa in World War II : the African resistance / Eric T. Jennings, University of Toronto ; [translated from French].
"General de Gaulle's Free French may have been headquartered in London, but their base lay in Brazzaville. This book shows compellingly that the movement drew its strength from 1940 to 1943 from fighting men, resources, and operations in French Equatorial Africa and Cameroon. Territorially...
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| Other title: | France libre fut africaine. English |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English French |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2015.
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| Edition: | First English edition 2015. |
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| Summary: | "General de Gaulle's Free French may have been headquartered in London, but their base lay in Brazzaville. This book shows compellingly that the movement drew its strength from 1940 to 1943 from fighting men, resources, and operations in French Equatorial Africa and Cameroon. Territorially, Free France spanned from the Libyan border with Chad down to the Congo River, and to the scattered tiny French territories of the South Pacific and India. Eric T. Jennings tells the story of an improbable French military and institutional rebirth through Central Africa. Free French Africa in World War II provides a unique look at the long forgotten role Gaullist Africa played to help the Allied cause."--Flyleaf |
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| Item Description: | "First published in 2014 by Perrin (Paris) as La France libre fut africaine"--Title page verso |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 300 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781107261464 1107261465 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/CBO9781107261464 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Source of description: Online resource; title from PDF title page (Cambridge Core, viewed April 25, 2020). |