The assassination of Jacques Lemaigre Dubreuil : a Frenchman between France and North Africa / / William A. Hoisington, Jr

• Autore: Hoisington William A. <1941-, >
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2005
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (163 p.)
• Disciplina: 338.0944/092; B
• Soggetto topico: Industrialists - France; Political activists - France; Assassination - Morocco - Casablanca; World War, 1939-1945 - Africa, North
• Soggetto geografico: France Colonies Africa; Africa, North History
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]-176) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Plates; Acknowledgements; Preface; 1 Taxpayer revolt in France; 2 France's fall and the Vichy change; 3 Defending French Africa; 4 Working for Giraud; 5 To die in Casablanca; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This is a political biography of the French industrialist and political activist Jacques Lemaigre Dubreuil (1894-1955), president of the Taxpayers' Federation in the 1930s, entrepreneur in wartime France and Africa, organizer of the 'Group of Five' in Algiers which prepared for the Allied landings in North Africa (November 1942), 'inventor' of General Henri Giraud as a candidate for the leadership of liberated North and West Africa, negotiator of the Murphy-Giraud Agreements and the Anfa Memorandum with President Roosevelt (1942 and 1943), political writer on the postwar future of France in Mo
• Titolo autorizzato: The assassination of Jacques Lemaigre Dubreuil
• ISBN: 1-134-26841-6; 1-134-26842-4; 1-280-17695-4; 0-203-00496-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910348227703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: History and society in the Islamic world.