The Republic in Danger: General Maurice Gamelin and the Politics

The Republic in DangerGeneral Maurice Gamelin and the Politics of French Defence, 19331940\nAuthor(s): Martin S. Alexander\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521372343, 978-0521372343\nSynopsis\nThis is the first full-length study in English of the career of one of France's most controversial military leaders, General Maurice Gamelin [tel]. 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 [tel]. 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 campai.