Memoirs of Hope: Renewal and Endeavor
Author: Charles de Gaulle
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Published: 1971
Total Pages: 408
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Author: Charles de Gaulle
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Published: 1971
Total Pages: 408
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Published: 1971
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Charles de Gaulle
Publisher: London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson
Published: 1971
Total Pages: 408
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides a historic account of General de Gaulle's return to power and the decisive early years of his Presidency.
Author: Charles de Gaulle
Publisher: Touchstone
Published: 1972
Total Pages: 1048
ISBN-13: 9780671213466
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally three separate volumes covering three distinct periods, this single edition encompasses all of de Gaulle's personal writings from the fall of France in 1940 to the aftermath of the war in 1946. Maps. Index.
Author: Julian Jackson
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2018-06-18
Total Pages: 866
ISBN-13: 1846143527
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA 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: Charles de Gaulle
Publisher:
Published: 1967
Total Pages: 1048
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Geneviève de Gaulle-Anthonioz
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 118
ISBN-13: 9781559704984
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe "French Mother Teresa" tells for the first time of her experience in the concentration camp at Ravensbruck, reviving a poignant reminder of the Holocaust that must never be forgotten.
Author: Julian Jackson
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2018-08-13
Total Pages: 663
ISBN-13: 0674988728
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner of the Duff Cooper Prize Winner of the Elizabeth Longford Prize A New Yorker, Financial Times, Spectator, Times, and Telegraph Book of the Year In this definitive biography of the mythic general who refused to accept the Nazi domination of France, Julian Jackson captures Charles de Gaulle as never before. Drawing on unpublished letters, memoirs, and papers from the recently opened de Gaulle archive, he shows how this volatile visionary of staunch faith and conservative beliefs infuriated Churchill, challenged American hegemony, recognized the limitations of colonial ambitions in Algeria and Vietnam, and put a broken France back at the center of world affairs. “With a fluent style and near-total command of existing and newly available sources...Julian Jackson has come closer than anyone before him to demystifying this conservative at war with the status quo, for whom national interests were inseparable from personal honor.” —Richard Norton Smith, Wall Street Journal “A sweeping-yet-concise introduction to the most brilliant, infuriating, and ineffably French of men.” —Ross Douthat, New York Times “Classically composed and authoritative...Jackson writes wonderful political history.” —Adam Gopnik, New Yorker “A remarkable book in which the man widely chosen as the Greatest Frenchman is dissected, intelligently and lucidly, then put together again in an extraordinary fair-minded, highly readable portrait. Throughout, the book tells a thrilling story.” —Antonia Fraser, New Statesman “Makes awesome reading, and is a tribute to the fascination of its subject, and to Jackson’s mastery of it...A triumph, and hugely readable.” —Max Hastings, Sunday Times
Author: Charles de Gaulle
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Published: 1971
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Charles De Gaulle
Publisher: Franklin Classics
Published: 2018-10-12
Total Pages: 106
ISBN-13: 9780342651931
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