"The Paris Game is a dramatic recounting of how an obscure French general, under sentence of death by his government, undertakes the most enormous gamble of life: to fight on alone after his country's capitulation to Nazi Germany. In a game of intrigue and double-dealing, Charle…
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At a crucial moment in the Second World War, an obscure French general reaches a fateful personal decision: to fight on alone after his government's flight from Paris and its capitulation to Nazi Germany.
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A life of the greatest French statesman of modern times. In six weeks in the early summer of 1940, France was over-run by German troops and quickly surrendered. The French government of Marshal Pétain sued for peace and signed an armistice. One little-known junior French general…
A life of the greatest French statesman of modern times. In six weeks in the early summer of 1940, France was over-run by German troops and quickly surrendered. The French government of Marshal Pétain sued for peace and signed an armistice. One little-known junior French general…
A life of the greatest French statesman of modern times. In six weeks in the early summer of 1940, France was over-run by German troops and quickly surrendered. The French government of Marshal Pétain sued for peace and signed an armistice. One little-known junior French general…
A life of the greatest French statesman of modern times. In six weeks in the early summer of 1940, France was over-run by German troops and quickly surrendered. The French government of Marshal Pétain sued for peace and signed an armistice. One little-known junior French general…
"Charles de Gaulle set a precedent when, as a practicing Catholic, he assumed leadership of the republican cause in 1940. His ability to attract key personalities from the nation's 'three religious families' - Catholics, Jews, and Protestants - to the Free France banner allowed …
This second volume of Jean Lacouture's acclaimed biography of Charles de Gaulle closes the circle on one of the most remarkable political lives of the twentieth century.
"Savior of his nation in war; bold man of letters; patriot; a statesman who achieved reality for his political vision by the overwhelming force of his will: the personality that emerges in Jean Lacouture's magnificent biography of Charles de Gaulle seems larger than life, a pres…