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