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Author : Charles de Gaulle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1060 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : France
ISBN : UOM:39015035337909
Author : Charles de Gaulle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1048 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1255416906
Author : Charles de Gaulle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : MSU:31293100682651
Author : Julian Jackson
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 866 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781846143526
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 It draws on a vast range of published and unpublished memoirs and documents - including the recently opened de Gaulle archives - to show how de Gaulle achieved so much during the War when his resources were so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 : Charles de Gaulle
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0671211188
Author : Jonathan Fenby
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Page : 721 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781620878057
This biography of the former president of France describes his life and career fighting for the country that he loved, in the trenches of World War I, against the Nazi threat in World War II and during a decolonization war in Algeria. Original. 10,000 first printing.
Author : Garret Joseph Martin
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782380160
The greatest threat to the Western alliance in the 1960s did not come from an enemy, but from an ally. France, led by its mercurial leader General Charles de Gaulle, launched a global and comprehensive challenge to the United State's leadership of the Free World, tackling not only the political but also the military, economic, and monetary spheres. Successive American administrations fretted about de Gaulle, whom they viewed as an irresponsible nationalist at best and a threat to their presence in Europe at worst. Based on extensive international research, this book is an original analysis of France's ambitious grand strategy during the 1960s and why it eventually failed. De Gaulle's failed attempt to overcome the Cold War order reveals important insights about why the bipolar international system was able to survive for so long, and why the General's legacy remains significant to current French foreign policy.
Author : Charles de Gaulle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : STANFORD:36105002438443
Author : Charles de Gaulle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : STANFORD:36105002438435
Author : William R. Keylor
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442236769
In this definitive history, William R. Keylor traces the tumultuous relationship between Charles de Gaulle and a host of other key twentieth-century figures: his former mentor Marshal Philippe Pétain, who headed the collaborationist government in the southern French city of Vichy as the German army occupied the northern two-thirds of the country; Sir Winston Churchill, the British prime minister whose government supported and financed de Gaulle and the Free French, but who clashed with the French leader on a number of hot-button issues; and, most critically, the six American presidents from FDR to Nixon. Keylor uses the metaphor “thorn in the side” to emphasize the fact that challenges from the intrepid French leader were often an annoyance to the Americans, who all had many more important issues to deal with—World War II for Roosevelt and Truman, the Cold War for Eisenhower, and the Vietnam War for Kennedy and Johnson. Richard Nixon alone had an excellent relationship, but the two men overlapped for only four months before de Gaulle’s retirement. Thoroughly researched and deeply knowledgeable, this gripping book will appeal to all readers interested in contemporary French and US history.
Author : Charles de Gaulle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1048 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : LCCN:64005415
Author : Charles de Gaulle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : WISC:89035395870
Author : Julian Jackson
Publisher : Haus Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1904341446
Accessible and affordable illustrated biography
Author : Ray Argyle
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781459722880
At a crucial moment in the Second World War, an obscure French general reaches a fateful personal decision: to fight on alone after his government’s flight from Paris and its capitulation to Nazi Germany. Amid the ravages of a world war, three men — a general, a president, and a prime minister — are locked in a rivalry that threatens their partnership and puts the world’s most celebrated city at risk of destruction before it can be liberated. This is the setting of The Paris Game, a dramatic recounting of how an obscure French general under sentence of death by his government launches on the most enormous gamble of his life: to fight on alone after his country’s capitulation to Nazi Germany. In a game of intrigue and double-dealing, Charles de Gaulle must struggle to retain the loyalty of Winston Churchill against the unforgiving opposition of Franklin Roosevelt and the traitorous manoeuvring of a collaborationist Vichy France. How he succeeds in restoring the honour of France and securing its place as a world power is the stuff of raw history, both stirring and engrossing.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780674987210