Author: David Schoenbrun
Publisher: New York : Atheneum
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
The Three Lives of Charles de Gaulle
Author: David Schoenbrun
Publisher: New York : Atheneum
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Publisher: New York : Atheneum
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Les trois vies de Charles de Gaulle (the three lives of Charles de Gaulle.);
Author: David Schoenbrun
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 489
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 489
Book Description
A Certain Idea of France
Author: Julian Jackson
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 1846143527
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 866
Book Description
A SUNDAY TIMES, THE TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN, SPECTATOR, FINANCIAL TIMES, TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Masterly ... awesome reading ... an outstanding biography' Max Hastings, Sunday Times The definitive biography of the greatest French statesman of modern times In six weeks in the early summer of 1940, France was over-run by German troops and quickly surrendered. The French government of Marshal Pétain sued for peace and signed an armistice. One little-known junior French general, refusing to accept defeat, made his way to England. On 18 June he spoke to his compatriots over the BBC, urging them to rally to him in London. 'Whatever happens, the flame of French resistance must not be extinguished and will not be extinguished.' At that moment, Charles de Gaulle entered into history. For the rest of the war, de Gaulle frequently bit the hand that fed him. He insisted on being treated as the true embodiment of France, and quarrelled violently with Churchill and Roosevelt. He was prickly, stubborn, aloof and self-contained. But through sheer force of personality and bloody-mindedness he managed to have France recognised as one of the victorious Allies, occupying its own zone in defeated Germany. For ten years after 1958 he was President of France's Fifth Republic, which he created and which endures to this day. His pursuit of 'a certain idea of France' challenged American hegemony, took France out of NATO and twice vetoed British entry into the European Community. His controversial decolonization of Algeria brought France to the brink of civil war and provoked several assassination attempts. Julian Jackson's magnificent biography reveals this the life of this titanic figure as never before. It draws on a vast range of published and unpublished memoirs and documents - including the recently opened de Gaulle archives - to show how de Gaulle achieved so much during the War when his resources were so astonishingly few, and how, as President, he put a medium-rank power at the centre of world affairs. No previous biography has depicted his paradoxes so vividly. Much of French politics since his death has been about his legacy, and he remains by far the greatest French leader since Napoleon.
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 1846143527
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 866
Book Description
A SUNDAY TIMES, THE TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN, SPECTATOR, FINANCIAL TIMES, TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Masterly ... awesome reading ... an outstanding biography' Max Hastings, Sunday Times The definitive biography of the greatest French statesman of modern times In six weeks in the early summer of 1940, France was over-run by German troops and quickly surrendered. The French government of Marshal Pétain sued for peace and signed an armistice. One little-known junior French general, refusing to accept defeat, made his way to England. On 18 June he spoke to his compatriots over the BBC, urging them to rally to him in London. 'Whatever happens, the flame of French resistance must not be extinguished and will not be extinguished.' At that moment, Charles de Gaulle entered into history. For the rest of the war, de Gaulle frequently bit the hand that fed him. He insisted on being treated as the true embodiment of France, and quarrelled violently with Churchill and Roosevelt. He was prickly, stubborn, aloof and self-contained. But through sheer force of personality and bloody-mindedness he managed to have France recognised as one of the victorious Allies, occupying its own zone in defeated Germany. For ten years after 1958 he was President of France's Fifth Republic, which he created and which endures to this day. His pursuit of 'a certain idea of France' challenged American hegemony, took France out of NATO and twice vetoed British entry into the European Community. His controversial decolonization of Algeria brought France to the brink of civil war and provoked several assassination attempts. Julian Jackson's magnificent biography reveals this the life of this titanic figure as never before. It draws on a vast range of published and unpublished memoirs and documents - including the recently opened de Gaulle archives - to show how de Gaulle achieved so much during the War when his resources were so astonishingly few, and how, as President, he put a medium-rank power at the centre of world affairs. No previous biography has depicted his paradoxes so vividly. Much of French politics since his death has been about his legacy, and he remains by far the greatest French leader since Napoleon.
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 0674987217
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 960
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 0674987217
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 960
Book Description
The Threee Lives of Charles de Gaulle
Author: David Schoenbrun
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
Memoirs of Hope: Renewal and Endeavor
Author: Charles de Gaulle
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
The De Gaulle Nobody Knows
Author: Alden Hatch
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Generals
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
A biography with many hitherto unknown details of his early life which shows his rise to fame in World War 2, his years of obscurity, and his comeback sparked by the Algerian crisis.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Generals
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
A biography with many hitherto unknown details of his early life which shows his rise to fame in World War 2, his years of obscurity, and his comeback sparked by the Algerian crisis.
De Gaulle
Author: Julian Jackson
Publisher: Haus Publishing
ISBN: 9781904341444
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Accessible and affordable illustrated biography
Publisher: Haus Publishing
ISBN: 9781904341444
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Accessible and affordable illustrated biography
Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
The forgotten French
Author: Nicholas Atkin
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1847795668
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. It is widely assumed that the French in the British Isles during the Second World War were fully fledged supporters of General de Gaulle, and that, across the channel at least, the French were a ‘nation of resisters’. This study reveals that most exiles were on British soil by chance rather than by design, and that many were not sure whether to stay. Overlooked by historians, who have concentrated on the ‘Free French’ of de Gaulle, these were the ‘Forgotten French’: refugees swept off the beaches of Dunkirk; servicemen held in camps after the Franco-German armistice; Vichy consular officials left to cater for their compatriots; and a sizeable colonist community based mainly in London. Drawing on little-known archival sources, this study examines the hopes and fears of those communities who were bitterly divided among themselves, some being attracted to Pétain as much as to de Gaulle.
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1847795668
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. It is widely assumed that the French in the British Isles during the Second World War were fully fledged supporters of General de Gaulle, and that, across the channel at least, the French were a ‘nation of resisters’. This study reveals that most exiles were on British soil by chance rather than by design, and that many were not sure whether to stay. Overlooked by historians, who have concentrated on the ‘Free French’ of de Gaulle, these were the ‘Forgotten French’: refugees swept off the beaches of Dunkirk; servicemen held in camps after the Franco-German armistice; Vichy consular officials left to cater for their compatriots; and a sizeable colonist community based mainly in London. Drawing on little-known archival sources, this study examines the hopes and fears of those communities who were bitterly divided among themselves, some being attracted to Pétain as much as to de Gaulle.