Cover; Title Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Acronyms and Abbreviations; Introduction; Part 1: Fighting for a foothold; 1 A very special relationship; 2 The man of the moment; 3 'The flame must not go out!'; 4 Perfidious Albion; 5 Gaining status; 6 Operation Menace; 7 First blood; 8 A question of priorities; 9 'Lunch, or a battle -- you choose!'; Part 2: Fighting for France; 10 Assassination and outrage; 11 Angst at Anfa; 12 One step forward and one step back; 13 A grudging approval; 14 D-Day; 15 A stroll down the Champs-Élysées; Part 3: Fighting for the Future; 16 Citizen de Gaulle.;Watching a D-Day film, does anyone wonder why no French units took part in the invasion of their own German-occupied country? General Charles De Gaulle commaned 400,000 Free French soldiers, but US President Roosevelt insisted they not be told the date of the invasion because he intended to occupy France and open the country up to American Big Business, while keeping in office traitors who had run the country for Hitler. This would have sparked a civil war, but De Gaulle outwitted Washington to head the first government of liberated France. Disgusted with the professional politicians, he.