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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Table of Contents:
- Part I) Free France's African gambit
- Colonies without motherlands
- Africa as legitimacy
- Dysfunction in Gaullist Africa
- Part II) The war
- The empire strikes back
- Free French Africa in arms
- Part III) Resource extraction, wartime abuses, and African experiences
- Rubber, gold, and the battle for resources
- Colonial practices and wartime imperatives.