Wars, Plots and Scandals in Post-War France

Williams explores the plots and scandals of that have affected both France and Algeria from the Algerian war.

Philip M. Williams (Author)

9780521130820, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 11 February 2010

244 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.4 cm, 0.36 kg

This collection, first published in 1970, brings together twelve articles on French political subjects, mostly concerned either with the plots and scandals that arose out of the long struggle for decolonisation, or with the culmination of that struggle in the Algerian war. In his introduction as well as throughout the book, Williams demonstrates the connection between these two themes, and explains why political scandals have been so prominent and recurrent a feature of French public life and how these scandals affected both France as well as Algeria.

Preface
Part I. The Burden of History: 1. The politics of scandal
2. From Dreyfus to Vichy
Part II. Legacy of Empire: Intrigue in Paris: 3. The Generals affair
4. The Leakages affair
5. The Mitterrrand affair
6. The Ben Barka affair
Part III. Legacy of Empire: War in Algeria
7. The Fourth Republic: murder or suicide?
8. Moslems and settlers
9. Algerian conversations
10. The army and its putsch
Part IV. Learning from History?: 11. Gaullist grandeur: myth or reality
12. Vietnam: America's Algeria?
Index.

Subject Areas: Politics & government [JP]