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De Gaulle (Paperback)
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Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize Winner of the Elizabeth Longford
Prize A Financial Times, Spectator, Times, and Telegraph Book of
the Year In 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 Drawing on unpublished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." -Adam
Gopnik, New Yorker "A remarkable book in which the man widely
chosen as the Greatest Frenchman is dissected, intelligently and
lucidly, then put together again in an extraordinary fair-minded,
highly readable portrait. Throughout, the book tells a thrilling
story." -Antonia Fraser, New Statesman "Makes awesome reading, and
is a tribute to the fascination of its subject, and to Jackson's
mastery of it...A triumph, and hugely readable." -Max Hastings,
Sunday Times
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