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Winner of the Duff Cooper PrizeWinner of the Elizabeth Longford PrizeA New Yorker, Financial Times, Spectator, Times, and Telegraph Book of the YearIn this definitive biography of the mythic general who refused to accept the Nazi domination of France, Julian Jackson captures Charles de Gaulle as never before. Drawing on unpublished letters, memoirs, and papers from the recently opened de Gaulle archive, he shows how this volatile visionary of staunch faith and conservative beliefs infuriated Churchill, challenged American hegemony, recognized the limitations of colonial ambitions in Algeria and Vietnam, and put a broken France back at the center of world affairs.“With a fluent style and near-total command of existing and newly available sources...Julian Jackson has come closer than anyone before him to demystifying this conservative at war with the status quo, for whom national interests were inseparable from personal honor.”—Richard Norton Smith, Wall Street Journal“A sweeping-yet-concise introduction to the most brilliant, infuriating, and ineffably French of men.”—Ross Douthat, New York Times“Classically composed and authoritative...Jackson writes wonderful political history.”—A

Author

Julian Jackson - undifferentiated, Julian Jackson

Publisher

The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press

Published

1944

Language

EN

ISBN

9780674988729