De Gaulle / Julian Jackson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jackson, Julian, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gaulle, Charles de, 1890-1970.

Gaulle, Charles de.

Presidents--France--Biography.

Presidents.

Generals--France--Biography.

Generals.

France--Politics and government--20th century.

France.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (960 pages)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

"The finest one-volume life of de Gaulle in English." —Richard Norton Smith, Wall Street Journal In a definitive biography of the mythic general who refused to accept Nazi domination of France, Julian Jackson captures this titanic figure as never before. Drawing on unpublished letters, memoirs, and resources of the recently opened de Gaulle archive, he shows how this volatile visionary put a broken France back at the center of world affairs.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Maps

Introduction

Part One. De Gaulle before 'De Gaulle', 1890-1940

1. Beginnings, 1890-1908

2. 'A Regret That will Never Leave Me', 1908-1918

3. Rebuilding a Career, 1919-1932

4. Making a Mark, 1932-1939

5. The Battle of France, September 1939-June 1940

Part Two. Exile, 1940-1944

6. Rebellion, 1940

7. Survival, 1941

8. Inventing Gaullism

9. On the World Stage, September 1941-June 1942

10. Fighting France, July-October 1942

11. Power Struggles, November 1942-November 1943

12. Building a State in Exile, July 1943-May 1944

13. Liberation, June-August 1944

Part Three. In and Out of Power, 1944-1958

14. In Power, August 1944-May 1945

15. From Liberator to Saviour, May 1945-December 1946

16. The New Messiah, 1947-1955

17. In the 'Desert', 1955-1958

18. The 18 Brumaire of Charles de Gaulle, February-June 1958

19. Président du Conseil, June-December 1958

Part Four. Republican Monarch, 1959-1965

20. 'This Affair Which Absorbs and Paralyses Us', 1959-1962

21. Turning Point, 1962

22. The Pursuit of Grandeur, 1959-1963

23. Going Global, 1963-1964

24. Modernizing Monarch, 1959-1964

25. Half- Time, 1965

Part Five. Towards the End, 1966-1970

26. Upsetting the Applecart, 1966-196

27. Diminishing Returns

28. Revolution, 1968

29. The End, June 1968-November 1970

30. Myth, Legacy and Achievement

Bibliographical Note

Biographies

Notes

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 19. Feb 2019)

ISBN:

0-674-98872-8

0-674-98874-4

OCLC:

1049912607