De gaulle biography 2010
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The General: Charles De Gaulle and the France He Saved - Hardcover
Review
'Skilful and subtle ... brilliant' Douglas Hurd, Daily Telegraph 'A fine book' Ben Macintyre, the Times 'The best English-language biography of de Gaulle' --Scotsman 'Finely nuanced and highly readable ... President Sarkozy has much to learn from this tale' --Andrew Hussey, Observer 'Most readable and sensible judgments' --Max Hastings, Sunday Times 'Monumental ... most enjoyable' --Don Morrison, Financial Times 'Magisterial' Economist 'A compelling portrait' Literary Review 'A compelling portrait' Literary Review July Issue 'Skilful and subtle ... brilliant' Douglas Hurd, Daily Telegraph 'A fine book' Ben Macintyre, the Times 'The best English-language biography of de Gaulle' Scotsman 'Magisterial' Economist 'Finely nuanced and highly readable ... President Sarkozy has much to learn from this tale'
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The General: Charles De Gaulle and the France He Saved
No leader of modern times was more unique and more uniquely national than Charles de Gaulle. As founder and first President of the Fifth Republic, General de Gaulle saw han själv 'carrying France on my shoulders'. When he first emerged on to the world scen in 1940, his insistence that he spoke for his nation might well have appeared impossibly arrogant for a recently promoted junior general who had never been elected to anything. But he personified many of the traits of his country which fascinate the rest of the world - its pride in itself, its intransigence, its historical and cultural heritage and its quasi-religious belief in the state. Le Genâeral, as he became known from 1940 on, appeared as if carved from a single monumental block, but was, in fact, extremely complex, a man with deep anställda feelings and recurrent mood swings, devoted to his family and often seeking reassurance from those around him. Though insisting
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The General (Fenby book)
For other entities with the same title, see The General (disambiguation).
The General: Charles de Gaulle and the France He Saved is a non-fiction book authored by the British historian and journalist Jonathan Fenby. Published in 2010 by Simon & Schuster, the biography details the life and times of the iconic French statesman Charles de Gaulle, with the 20th-century history of the senior general and politician's nation also receiving focus.[2]
In summary, Fenby concludes that de Gaulle's impressive achievements truly merit the widespread sense of "the General" as being the greatest modern Frenchman. Being a decorated hero of the First World War, the statesman possessed a striking sense of personal destiny that fueled his defiance against the Nazi Germany during the Second World War and led to his role as leader of the Free French Forces.
In establishing the French Fifth Republic from the ashes of a conflict-torn Europe, Fenby writes,