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 ...
It is 70 years since, in the face of ferocious German bombardment, General Hering announced that Paris was an "open city" and effectively surrendered to the Nazis. This brave decision was taken on ...
General de Gaulle believed in France’s destiny, so he made it happen. By Andrew Hussey Almost 50 years on from his death, the tall, angular and awkward profile of Charles de Gaulle still casts a long ...
As the French continue to pick over their World Cup debacle, which has been treated as a tragedy almost comparable to the fall of France in 1940, they console themselves with the memory of Charles de ...
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