Author: Tute, Warren,
Title: THE RELUCTANT ENEMIES - The story of the last war between Britain and France 1940-1942.
Description: Collins, London, 1990, 1st edn., 334pp, 6 maps in text, a library rebind in unlettered blue cloth, original half tone photo pictorial dustwrapper, an account of the tensions and in some cases real antipathy between former allies Britain and France, after the President Marshal Petain sought peace terms with Hitler in 1940 WW2, appointing Admiral Darlan to high office in his Vichy government, which led to Britain having to destroy the French fleet when Darlan refused to prevent their being taken into Axis use by ordering them to be scuttled, and of the opposite opinion of the leader of the Free French forces the self-styled General de Gaulle, a county library rebind lacking original endpaper maps, but contains the usual stamps and blemishes, reading copy in a fair dustwrapper,

Keywords: war ww2 britain france


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