Charles De Gaulle 1st Ed 1941 The Army Of The Future Hardcover w/Dustjacket

Description: Hardcover. 8vo. Published by J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, PA. 1941. 179 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (DJ is lightly chipped and worn to the extremities). Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Previous owner's name present to the FFEP. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. "The Army of the Future" is a piece of history, written by Charles De Gaulle after the First World War, and shortly before the Second World War. In it he predicts how the war of the future against France will be conducted. De Gaulle foresaw the combined usage of armor, infantry, and artillery that the Nazi's used against France in their Blitzkrieg, but missed the crucial roll of air power during that conflict. It was interesting as a historian to look at what De Gaulle thought would happen, and compare it to what actually happened. It is also interesting to note that De Gaulle's troops were the only French units during the invasion that were able to put up any kind of resistance to the Nazi onslaught. Charles De Gaulle 1st Ed 1941 The Army Of The Future Hardcover w/Dustjacket Click images to enlarge Description Up For Sale Today is The Army of the Future by General Charles De Gaulle foreword by Walter Millis Hardcover. 8vo. Published by J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, PA. 1941. 179 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (DJ is lightly chipped and worn to the extremities). Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Previous owner's name present to the FFEP. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. "The Army of the Future" is a piece of history, written by Charles De Gaulle after the First World War, and shortly before the Second World War. In it he predicts how the war of the future against France will be conducted. De Gaulle foresaw the combined usage of armor, infantry, and artillery that the Nazi's used against France in their Blitzkrieg, but missed the crucial roll of air power during that conflict. It was interesting as a historian to look at what De Gaulle thought would happen, and compare it to what actually happened. It is also interesting to note that De Gaulle's troops were the only French units during the invasion that were able to put up any kind of resistance to the Nazi onslaught. FROM WIKIPEDIA: Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (22 November 1890 – 9 November 1970) was a French general and statesman. He was the leader of Free France (1940–44) and the head of the Provisional Government of the French Republic (1944–46). In 1958, he founded the Fifth Republic and was elected as the 18th President of France, a position he held until his resignation in 1969. He was the dominant figure of France during the Cold War era and his memory continues to influence French politics. Born in Lille, he graduated from Saint-Cyr in 1912. He was a decorated officer of the First World War, wounded several times, and later taken prisoner at Verdun. During the interwar period, he advocated mobile armoured divisions. During the German invasion of May 1940, he led an armoured division which counterattacked the invaders; he was then appointed Under-Secretary for War. Refusing to accept his government's armistice with Nazi Germany, de Gaulle exhorted the French population to resist occupation and to continue the fight in his Appeal of 18 June. He led a government in exile and the Free French Forces against the Axis. Despite frosty relations with Britain and especially the United States, he emerged as the undisputed leader of the French resistance. He became Head of the Provisional Government of the French Republic in June 1944, the interim government of France following its Liberation. As early as 1944, de Gaulle introduced a dirigist economic policy, which included substantial state-directed control over a capitalist economy which was followed by thirty years of unprecedented growth. Frustrated by the return of petty partisanship in the new Fourth Republic, he resigned in early 1946 but continued to be politically active as founder of the RPF party. He retired in the early 1950s and wrote his War Memoirs, which quickly became a classic of modern French literature. When the Algerian War was ripping apart the unstable Fourth Republic, the National Assembly brought him back to power during the May 1958 crisis. De Gaulle founded the Fifth Republic with a strong presidency, and he was elected in that role. He managed to keep France together while taking steps to end the war, much to the anger of the Pieds-Noirs (Frenchmen settled in Algeria) and the military; both previously had supported his return to power to maintain colonial rule. He granted independence to Algeria and progressively to other French colonies. In the context of the Cold War, de Gaulle initiated his "Politics of Grandeur", asserting that France as a major power should not rely on other countries, such as the US, for its national security and prosperity. To this end, de Gaulle pursued a policy of "national independence" which led him to withdraw from NATO's military integrated command and to launch an independent nuclear development program that made France the fourth nuclear power. He restored cordial Franco-German relations to create a European counterweight between the Anglo-American and Soviet spheres of influence. However, he opposed any development of a supranational Europe, favouring a Europe of sovereign nations. De Gaulle openly criticised the US intervention in Vietnam and the "exorbitant privilege" of the US dollar. In his later years, his support for an independent Quebec and his two vetoes against Britain's entry into the European Community generated considerable controversy. Although re-elected President in 1965, in May 1968 he appeared likely to lose power amid widespread protests by students and workers but survived the crisis with backing from the Army and won an election with an increased majority in the Assembly. De Gaulle resigned in 1969 after losing a referendum in which he proposed more decentralization. He died a year later at his residence in Colombey-les-Deux-Églises, leaving his Presidential memoirs unfinished. Many French political parties and figures claim the Gaullist legacy. 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