The French secret service : from the Dreyfus Affair to the Gulf War /

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Author / Creator:Porch, Douglas.
Imprint:New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c1995.
Description:xiv, 623 p.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1754974
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ISBN:0374158533 : $27.50
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The Birth of the Modern French Secret Services
  • 2. Success and Scandal, 1900-14
  • 3. The Failed Miracle
  • 4. The Trench Deadlock
  • 5. Tracking the Red Menace
  • 6. The German Threat
  • 7. Intelligence and the Fall of France
  • 8. The BCRA
  • 9. The War of the Secret Services
  • 10. The Resistance
  • 11. The Secret Services in Postwar France
  • 12. Indochina
  • 13. Operation Castor and the Sinews of War
  • 14. Dien Bien Phu: The Intelligence Dimension
  • 15. The Algerian War
  • 16. The War Within Algeria
  • 17. Intelligence in de Gaulle's Republic
  • 18. Terrorists, Parallel Networks, and Monsieur Pasqua's Luncheons
  • 19. L'affaire Rainbow Warrior
  • 20. Conclusion
  • Appendix: Encryption/Decryption.