The Strange History Of Pierre Mendès-France And The Great Conflict Over French North Africa
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Condition: Good. Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage, tears along folds and corners of jacket. Page Condition: Good. Markings: unmrkd. Binding condition: Intact.
At the volatile crossroads of postwar European politics and the dying embers of French colonialism, Alexander Werth chronicles the extraordinary and turbulent career of Pierre Mendès-France — the statesman who dared to challenge the foundations of the French Fourth Republic. Set against the backdrop of a crumbling empire and the fierce struggle for French North Africa, this work presents a gripping portrait of a politician whose radical pragmatism made him one of the most polarising figures in mid-twentieth-century France. Werth details the ferocious political battles over Tunisia, Morocco, and Algeria, illuminating the ideological fault lines that would ultimately tear the Republic apart. Drawing on his unparalleled experience as a foreign correspondent and political analyst, Werth writes with the forensic precision of a journalist and the narrative authority of a historian. His account argues that Mendès-France was not merely a political curiosity but a pivotal, tragic figure — a man ahead of his time, crushed by the very institutions he sought to reform. For anyone seeking to understand how the great colonial project unravelled and why France's imperial sunset was so uniquely convulsive, this remains an indispensable and unsettling study.
Author: Alexander Werth
Format: Hardback
Published: 1957, Barrie Books
Genre: European history
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage, tears along folds and corners of jacket. Page Condition: Good. Markings: unmrkd. Binding condition: Intact.
At the volatile crossroads of postwar European politics and the dying embers of French colonialism, Alexander Werth chronicles the extraordinary and turbulent career of Pierre Mendès-France — the statesman who dared to challenge the foundations of the French Fourth Republic. Set against the backdrop of a crumbling empire and the fierce struggle for French North Africa, this work presents a gripping portrait of a politician whose radical pragmatism made him one of the most polarising figures in mid-twentieth-century France. Werth details the ferocious political battles over Tunisia, Morocco, and Algeria, illuminating the ideological fault lines that would ultimately tear the Republic apart. Drawing on his unparalleled experience as a foreign correspondent and political analyst, Werth writes with the forensic precision of a journalist and the narrative authority of a historian. His account argues that Mendès-France was not merely a political curiosity but a pivotal, tragic figure — a man ahead of his time, crushed by the very institutions he sought to reform. For anyone seeking to understand how the great colonial project unravelled and why France's imperial sunset was so uniquely convulsive, this remains an indispensable and unsettling study.