Amazon.com description: Product Description: Maguire (British and American studies, U. of Paris XII-Val de Marne) explores the attitude and behavior of the British and American governments toward Charles de Gaulle and his handful of refugees from the German occupation of France who settled in London in 1940. She shows how the tensions between the two governments and between them and the French were reconciled to allow a relatively common policy that allowed the small group to grow into an internationally recognized government-in-exile and heir to liberated France after the war. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.