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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...

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Author

Jonathan Fenby

Publisher

Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

Published

2012

Language

EN

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Historical Fiction, History, Historical Fiction, Biography

Rating

3.96 / 5 (227 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14