The Fall and Rise of French Sea Power by Hugues Canuel (.ePUB)
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The Fall and Rise of French Sea Power : France’s Quest for an Independent Naval Policy, 1940–1963 by Hugues Canuel
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Overview: The Fall and Rise of French Sea Power explores the renewal of French naval power from the fall of France in 1940 through the first two decades of the Cold War. The Marine national continued fighting after the Armistice, a service divided against itself. The destruction of French sea power–at the hands of the Allies, the Axis, and fratricidal confrontations in the colonies–continued unabated until the scuttling of the Vichy fleet in 1942. And yet, just over twenty years after this dark day, Charles de Gaulle announced a plan to complement the country’s nuclear deterrent with a force of nuclear-powered, ballistic missile-carrying submarines. Completing the rebuilding effort that followed the nadir in Toulon, this force provided the means to make the Marine national a fully-fledged blue-water navy again, ready to face the complex circumstances of the Cold War.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History
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