The General: Charles De Gaulle and the France He SavedSkyhorse Publishing Inc., 2012 - 707 páginas No leader of modern times was more uniquely patriotic than Charles de Gaulle. As founder and first president of the Fifth Republic, General de Gaulle saw himself as “carrying France on [his] shoulders.” In his twenties, he fought for France in the trenches and at the epic battle of Verdun. In the 1930s, he waged a lonely battle to enable France to better resist Hitler’s Germany. Thereafter, he twice rescued the nation from defeat and decline by extraordinary displays of leadership, political acumen, daring, and bluff, heading off civil war and leaving a heritage adopted by his successors of right and left. Le Général, as he became known from 1940 on, appeared as if he was carved from a single monumental block, but was in fact extremely complex, a man with deep personal feelings and recurrent mood swings, devoted to his family and often seeking reassurance from those around him. This is a magisterial, sweeping biography of one of the great leaders of the twentieth century and of the country with which he so identified himself. Written with terrific verve, narrative skill, and rigorous detail, the first major work on de Gaulle in fifteen years brings alive as never before the private man as well as the public leader through exhaustive research and analysis. |
Contenido
Going Home | 236 |
Liberation | 244 |
PART FOUR FROM VICTORY TO DEFEAT | 259 |
Witches Brew | 261 |
Foreign Affairs | 276 |
Pétain and Laval | 291 |
Nest of intrigues | 299 |
That will teach them | 313 |
The Sovereign His Court and His People | 417 |
Algeria | 432 |
Raising the Game | 454 |
The Crucible | 463 |
Full House | 493 |
Facing France | 507 |
Tilting at Windmills | 541 |
Great things always end badly | 563 |
Guide for the nation | 323 |
Triumphs and Tragedies | 333 |
PART FIVE THE ROAD BACK | 357 |
Biding His Time | 359 |
I will see | 373 |
Saving the Ship | 380 |
First in France | 403 |
PART SIX REPUBLICAN MONARCH | 415 |
The Ides of May | 572 |
Counterpunch | 596 |
Final Act | 612 |
Source Notes | 637 |
665 | |
Glossary of Significant People | 675 |
681 | |
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