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- catalog abstract "French security policy has posed a puzzle to many people outside France, including politicians and even defence specialists such as the author, who took time off from his administrative position in Whitehall in order to study French thinking about security in detail. As with many other studies, he takes as his point of departure the traumatic defeat of 1940 but argues that the origins of current French policy are grounded in events and ideas that go back hundreds of years. They are ideas that are scarcely known or misinterpreted in the Anglo-Saxon world. Even de Gaulle was not an aberration from these old traditions and aspirations but rather a particularly effective exponent of them. Only an awareness of these historical roots of current concepts and assumptions will enable the foreign observer to understand what motivates French diplomats, civil servants, military officers, academics and even journalists and businessmen who all shape public, and hence also official, opinion in the area of defence and security.".
- catalog contributor b9852944.
- catalog coverage "Europe History, Military 20th century.".
- catalog coverage "France Foreign relations 20th century.".
- catalog coverage "France Military policy.".
- catalog created "1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1996.".
- catalog description "French security policy has posed a puzzle to many people outside France, including politicians and even defence specialists such as the author, who took time off from his administrative position in Whitehall in order to study French thinking about security in detail. As with many other studies, he takes as his point of departure the traumatic defeat of 1940 but argues that the origins of current French policy are grounded in events and ideas that go back hundreds of years. They are ideas that are scarcely known or misinterpreted in the Anglo-Saxon world. Even de Gaulle was not an aberration from these old traditions and aspirations but rather a particularly effective exponent of them.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [346]-350) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction: Political Truth and Symbolic Politics -- pt. I. Why. 1. The Universal Mission. 2. Grandeur and Misery. 3. Errors Not to Be Repeated, I. 4. Errors Not to Be Repeated, II -- pt. II. How. 5. Death in the Soul. 6. The Far Side of Despair. 7. Weakness and Fear. 8. The Rebels and the Sovereign. 9. Charles the Great and the God-King. Epilogue: The Past and the Present.".
- catalog description "Only an awareness of these historical roots of current concepts and assumptions will enable the foreign observer to understand what motivates French diplomats, civil servants, military officers, academics and even journalists and businessmen who all shape public, and hence also official, opinion in the area of defence and security.".
- catalog extent "xi, 356 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Humanity's soldier.".
- catalog identifier "1571818936 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Humanity's soldier.".
- catalog isPartOf "Contemporary France (Providence, R.I.) ; v. 1.".
- catalog isPartOf "Contemporary France ; v. 1".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Providence, R.I. : Berghahn Books,".
- catalog relation "Humanity's soldier.".
- catalog spatial "Europe History, Military 20th century.".
- catalog spatial "France Foreign relations 20th century.".
- catalog spatial "France Military policy.".
- catalog subject "327.44 20".
- catalog subject "DC367 .C53 1996".
- catalog subject "Gaulle, Charles de, 1890-1970 Influence.".
- catalog subject "National characteristics, French.".
- catalog subject "Security, International.".
- catalog subject "Symbolism in politics.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: Political Truth and Symbolic Politics -- pt. I. Why. 1. The Universal Mission. 2. Grandeur and Misery. 3. Errors Not to Be Repeated, I. 4. Errors Not to Be Repeated, II -- pt. II. How. 5. Death in the Soul. 6. The Far Side of Despair. 7. Weakness and Fear. 8. The Rebels and the Sovereign. 9. Charles the Great and the God-King. Epilogue: The Past and the Present.".
- catalog title "Humanity's soldier : France and international security, 1919-2001 / David Chuter.".
- catalog type "text".