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The General - Charles De Gaulle and the France He Saved (Hardcover)
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The General - Charles De Gaulle and the France He Saved (Hardcover)
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Price R466
Discovery Miles 4 660
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No leader of modern times was more unique and more uniquely
national than Charles de Gaulle. As founder and first President of
the Fifth Republic, General de Gaulle saw himself 'carrying France
on my shoulders'. When he first emerged on to the world stage in
1940, his insistence that he spoke for his nation might well have
appeared impossibly arrogant for a recently promoted junior general
who had never been elected to anything. But he personified many of
the traits of his country which fascinate the rest of the world -
its pride in itself, its intransigence, its historical and cultural
heritage and its quasi-religious belief in the state. Le General,
as he became known from 1940 on, appeared as if 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.
Though insisting on discipline and loyalty from others, he was a
great rebel. A grand visionary with a vast geo-political grasp and
elephantine memory, he was also a supreme tactician with a taste
for secrecy and the ability to out-flank opponents. 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 and narrative skill, and yet
rigorous and detailed, it brings alive as never before the private
man as well as the public leader through exhaustive research and
astute analysis.
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