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Churchill and de Gaulle

Secret Intelligence and the Failure of Franco-British Relations

H. Matthew Hefler

364 pages, bibliog., index

ISBN  978-1-80758-125-1 $150.00/£115.00 / Hb / Not Yet Published (December 2026)

eISBN 978-1-80758-126-8 eBook Not Yet Published


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Churchill and de Gaulle explores why Britain and France failed to cooperate after the Second World War. Drawing on declassified intelligence material, Matthew Hefler reveals that Winston Churchill opposed a lasting alliance with France. During the war he pursued an unofficial campaign in the Middle East, aiming to oust the French from the Levant, establish a ‘Greater Syria’ and create a Jewish state. Churchill continued this covert political action despite knowing that de Gaulle’s secret services had infiltrated the operation. Hefler reframes their relationship by showing how Churchill, to protect his unofficial policy, worked to discredit de Gaulle as a political force. Ultimately, Churchill’s secret statecraft meant sacrificing Franco-British relations and making de Gaulle an ‘enemy of Britain’.

Dr. Matthew Hefler is Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Statecraft and Strategic Communication, Stockholm School of Economics, and Project Lead of the AJI Intelligence and Research Programme, Ax:son Johnson Institute for Statecraft and Diplomacy. He is a specialist in international history and intelligence history. Hefler received his PhD as a Commonwealth Scholar and Rotary International Global Grant Scholar at the Department of War Studies, King’s College London. His doctoral work on intelligence and allied relations during the Second World War was shortlisted for the Michael Dockrill Prize in International History by the British International History Group (BIHG).

Subject: History: World War IIHistory: 20th Century to Present
Area: Europe


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