TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mangold, Peter
TI  - The Almost Impossible Ally: Harold MacMillan and Charles de Gaulle
SN  - 9781850438007
U1  - 327.41044 
PY  - 2006///
PB  - I. B. Tauris & Company
N1  - index
N2  - In 1963, General de gaulle (described by the foreign Office as prime Minister macmillan's ""almost impossible ally"") aggressively vetoed Britain's first bid to join the common market. It was a blow that delayed Britain's entry for a decade and hastened the end of Harold macmillan's political career. Peter mangold explores the complex issues that bound the two men in the post-war world, from decolonization to co-operation in the Cold War, and the character traits that separated them in this fascinating portrait of an Anglo-French friendship that turned sour
ER  -