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Power and Glory: France’s Secret Wars with Britain and America, 1945-2016
by R.T. Howard.
Biteback, 344 pp., £20, October 2016,978 1 78590 116 4 Show More
by R.T. Howard.
Biteback, 344 pp., £20, October 2016,
“... times, De Gaulle replied: ‘The fact that the Americans speak English.’ In Power and Glory R.T. Howard argues that for the French national power and influence are intimately bound up not just with ‘soft power’ but with the influence of one’s culture and language specifically. This was a cause for concern when Britain was applying to join the ... ”
