De GaulleJulian Jackson
De Gaulle
by Julian Jackson · first published 2018
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A definitive biography of the mythic general who refused to accept the Nazi domination of France, drawing on unpublished letters, memoirs, and papers in the newly opened de Gaulle archives that show how this volatile man put a broken France back at the center of world affairs. In the early summer of 1940, when France was overrun by German troops, one junior general who had fought in the trenches in Verdun refused to accept defeat. He fled to London, where he took to the radio to address his compatriots back home. "Whatever happens," he said, "the flame of French resistance must not be extingui
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FYI: the book reviewed here is called A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles de Gaulle in the British edition [1], but simply De Gaulle in the American one.[2] In both cases, the book is by Julian Jackson. [1] https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/178767/a-certain-idea-of-fra... [2] http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674987210
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