De Gaulle /

De Gaulle the historian, thinker, soldier, and politician is explored in this comprehensive biography.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Crozier, Brian, 1918-2012 (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, [1973]
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Table of Contents:
  • Part 1 : The enigma of De Gaulle. The man
  • Historical prologue
  • Part 2 : Historian and thinker 1890-1939. Pupil of the Jesuits (1890-1909)
  • The young officer (1909-1918)
  • The historian (1919-1924)
  • Petain's protege (1924-1932)
  • A prophet ignored (1932-1939)
  • Part 3 : Free France 1939-1945. The defeat (1939-1940)
  • The challenge
  • The Free French
  • Divided they fall
  • De Gaulle versus his allies
  • Roosevelt in the ascendant
  • Torch and after
  • Casablanca
  • Algiers
  • The resistance
  • Roots of the Fourth Republic
  • The agony of France
  • Part 4 : The liberation and after 1944-1946. Jostling for position
  • De Gaulle's Parisian triumph
  • Trial of strength
  • Foreign disappointments
  • International discords
  • Vichy on trial
  • The patient stirs
  • De Gaulle steps down
  • Part 5 : The Fourth Republic 1946-1958. Birth and challenge
  • Triumph and collapse
  • In the wilderness
  • De Gaulle returns
  • Part 6 : The Fifth Republic. De Gaulle breaks the opposition (1958-1962)
  • The Atlantic Directorate Affair
  • Europe and the world
  • The pressure mounts
  • The roots of discontent
  • Storm and aftermath
  • Exit and death
  • Part 7 : De Gaulle in history. Man and showman
  • Soldier and writer
  • Politician and statesman.