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Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c1983
Language
English
Description
From one of America's longest-serving foreign correspondents, a biography of France's controversial politician and statesman.
The first major biography of Charles de Gaulle written from an American perspective, this book offers a compelling assessment of the French army officer, politician, and statesman. Author Don Cook, former bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times, delineates de Gaulle's obsession with power and how the military man rose to leadership...
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
No leader of modern times was more unique and more uniquely national than Charles de Gaulle. As founder and first President of the Fifth Republic, General de Gaulle saw himself 'carrying France on my shoulders'. When he first emerged on to the world stage in 1940, his insistence that he spoke for his nation might well have appeared impossibly arrogant for a recently promoted junior general who had never been elected to anything. But he personified...
4) De Gaulle
Author
Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"A definitive biography of the mythic general who refused to accept the Nazi domination of France, drawing on unpublished letters, memoirs, and papers in the newly opened de Gaulle archives that show how this volatile man put a broken France back at the center of world affairs.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,...
Author
Series
Collection Marabout Université volume 408
Publisher
Marabout
Pub. Date
1984
Language
Français
18) The French Communist party: a critical history (1920-84), from Comintern to "the colours of France"
Author
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Pub. Date
c1984
Language
English