De Gaulle, by Julian Jackson (Belknap Press of Harvard University, 928 pp., $39.95) Charles de Gaulle was perhaps the most thoughtful and impressive statesman of the twentieth century. His only ...
Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (22 November 1890 – 9 November 1970) was a French army officer and statesman who led Free France against Nazi Germany in World War II and chaired the Provisional ...
How Charles de Gaulle’s story became a collective fairy tale that the French have agreed to believe in. Picture him as a legend, Joan of Arc in drag. A great nation is conquered by its historic enemy ...