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Article: The Almost Impossible Ally: Harold Macmillan and Charles de Gaulle.(Brief article)(Book review)
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- December 22, 2006
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The Almost Impossible Ally: Harold Macmillan and Charles de Gaulle. Peter Mangold. I.B. Tauris. [pounds sterling]18.99. vii + 275 pages. ISBN 1-85043-800-5. The post-1940 career of General de Gaulle illustrates the adage that pride does not precede but follows a fall. In Macmillan, de Gaulle found someone as difficult as himself: their political friendship was, in the author's words, 'a peculiarly feline and manipulative affair' from the 1940s to the 1960s. They worked surprisingly well during the war but it was in the late 1950s and early 1960s when Macmillan was Prime Minister and de Gaulle, President, that the relationship 'turned sour' over the idea, since tragically ...
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