A Certain Idea of France
The Life of Charles de Gaulle
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- Paperback
944 pages
- Release Date
3 September 2019
Summary
In six weeks in the early summer of 1940, France was over-run by German troops and quickly surrendered. The French government of Marshal Petain 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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141049533 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141049537 |
| Author: | Julian Jackson |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 944 |
| Release Date: | 3 September 2019 |
| Weight: | 698g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 44mm |
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A suitably monumental achievement. – Lewis Jones * The Times * More than just another, bigger, biography … he has the skill and style to maintain a dramatic narrative over nearly 800 pages of text – Robert Tombs * Spectator * Only a great biography could do justice to such a man. This one does it, magnificently. – Noel Malcolm * Daily Telegraph * Scholarship of the highest class … a truly great book, for after this all other biographies can be cast aside. – Simon Heffer * Sunday Telegraph *
About The Author
Julian Jackson
Julian Jackson is Professor of History at Queen Mary, University of London and one of the foremost British experts on twentieth-century France. His previous books include France- The Dark Years, 1940-1944, which was shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times History Book Award, and his celebrated The Fall of France, which won the Wolfson History Prize in 2004. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and Commandeur dans l’Ordre des Palmes Academiques.
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