Wars, Plots and Scandals in Post-War France [Paperback]

Williams explores the plots and scandals of that have affected both France and Algeria from the Algerian war.This 1970 text 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.This 1970 text 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.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.