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Author : Jean Raymond Tournoux
Publisher : Viking Adult
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Sons of France: Pétain and De Gaulle written by Jean Raymond Tournoux and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 1966 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Julian Jackson
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 1846143527
Total Pages : 866 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (461 download)
Download or read book A Certain Idea of France written by Julian Jackson and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2018-06-18 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A SUNDAY TIMES, THE TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN, SPECTATOR, FINANCIAL TIMES, TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Masterly ... awesome reading ... an outstanding biography' Max Hastings, Sunday Times The definitive biography of the greatest French statesman of modern times In six weeks in the early summer of 1940, France was over-run by German troops and quickly surrendered. The French government of Marshal Pétain sued for peace and signed an armistice. One little-known junior French general, refusing to accept defeat, made his way to England. On 18 June he spoke to his compatriots over the BBC, urging them to rally to him in London. 'Whatever happens, the flame of French resistance must not be extinguished and will not be extinguished.' At that moment, Charles de Gaulle entered into history. For the rest of the war, de Gaulle frequently bit the hand that fed him. He insisted on being treated as the true embodiment of France, and quarrelled violently with Churchill and Roosevelt. He was prickly, stubborn, aloof and self-contained. But through sheer force of personality and bloody-mindedness he managed to have France recognised as one of the victorious Allies, occupying its own zone in defeated Germany. For ten years after 1958 he was President of France's Fifth Republic, which he created and which endures to this day. His pursuit of 'a certain idea of France' challenged American hegemony, took France out of NATO and twice vetoed British entry into the European Community. His controversial decolonization of Algeria brought France to the brink of civil war and provoked several assassination attempts. Julian Jackson's magnificent biography reveals this the life of this titanic figure as never before. It draws on a vast range of published and unpublished memoirs and documents - including the recently opened de Gaulle archives - to show how de Gaulle achieved so much during the War when his resources were so astonishingly few, and how, as President, he put a medium-rank power at the centre of world affairs. No previous biography has depicted his paradoxes so vividly. Much of French politics since his death has been about his legacy, and he remains by far the greatest French leader since Napoleon.
Author : Charles Williams
Publisher : Abacus
ISBN 13 : 9780349115627
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (156 download)
Download or read book Petain written by Charles Williams and published by Abacus. This book was released on 2007-05 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Williams' major biography of Philippe Petain (1856-1951) tells of a peasant who became a Marshal of France and the Head of the Vichy State. A slow climb up the army ranks was leading inexorably to retirement when war broke out. He defended Verdun in 1916 and settled the mutinies in 1917. In May 1940, he realised that France had been defeated and requested an armistice. As head of unoccupied France, he jockeyed between Nazis, Allies and Vichy politicians until, in 1945, he returned to France to be tried for treason. His death sentence was commuted by General de Gaulle to life imprisonment. In recounting Petain's long life, Lord Williams, one of our most notable political biographers, has successfully illustrated the character of an extraordinary man.
Author : Jonathan Lynn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (12 download)
Download or read book The Patriotic Traitor written by Jonathan Lynn and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Patriotic Traitor' tells the extraordinary true story of Charles de Gaulle and Philippe Pétain, who loved each other like father and son but found themselves on tragically opposing sides in World War II. This relationship, noble, comic and absurd, changed history: Philippe Pétain, a tough, uncompromising soldier who rose through the ranks to save France in 1916 at the Battle of Verdun, and Charles de Gaulle, the aristocratic, academic, awkward and equally uncompromising soldier who led France to freedom when Pétain became a Nazi collaborator. In 1945 de Gaulle had his oldest friend tried for treason. But was it as simple as it seemed? This extraordinary story is seen as Pétain waits for the verdict.
Author : Sir Edward Spears
Publisher : New York : Stein and Day
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Two Men who Saved France: Pétain and De Gaulle written by Sir Edward Spears and published by New York : Stein and Day. This book was released on 1966 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles De Gaulle
Publisher : Andesite Press
ISBN 13 : 9781297520402
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (24 download)
Download or read book France and Her Army written by Charles De Gaulle and published by Andesite Press. This book was released on 2015-08-08 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Robert Smith Thompson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Pledge to Destiny: Charles de Gaulle and the Rise of the Free French written by Robert Smith Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jean Raymond Tournoux
Publisher : London : Heinemann
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Pétain and De Gaulle written by Jean Raymond Tournoux and published by London : Heinemann. This book was released on 1966 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Milton Dank
Publisher : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The French Against the French: Collaboration and Resistance written by Milton Dank and published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. This book was released on 1974 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Williams
Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
ISBN 13 : 9781403970114
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Pétain written by Charles Williams and published by Palgrave MacMillan. This book was released on 2005 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A portrait of the controversial French army commander-in-chief who surrendered France's Jewish population to Nazi occupiers describes Ptain's youth as an orphan peasant and identifies the determining factors behind his decisions. By the author of The Last Great Frenchman: A Life of General de Gaulle.
Author : Charles de Gaulle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (221 download)
Download or read book La France Et Son Armee written by Charles de Gaulle and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jonathan Fenby
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1620878054
Total Pages : 721 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (28 download)
Download or read book The General written by Jonathan Fenby and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 721 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No leader of modern times was more uniquely patriotic than Charles de Gaulle. In his twenties, he fought for France in the trenches and at the epic battle of Verdun. In the 1930s, he waged a lonely battle to enable France to better resist Hitler Germany. Thereafter, he twice rescued the nation from defeat and decline by extraordinary displays of leadership, political acumen, daring, and bluff, heading off civil war and leaving a heritage adopted by his successors of right and left. Le General, as he became known from 1940 on, appeared as if he was carved from a single monumental block, but was in fact extremely complex, a man with deep personal feelings and recurrent mood swings, devoted to his family and often seeking reassurance from those around him. This is a magisterial, sweeping biography of one of the great leaders of the twentieth century and of the country with which he so identified himself. Written with terrific verve, narrative skill, and rigorous detail, the first major work on de Gaulle in fifteen years brings alive as never before the private man as well as the public leader. -- Publisher description.
Author : Olivier Wieviorka
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674032613
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (326 download)
Download or read book Orphans of the Republic written by Olivier Wieviorka and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On July 10, 1940, by a 570 to 80 margin, the representatives in the French parliament voted full powers to Philippe Pétain, ending the Third Republic and paving the way for the Vichy regime. Recreating the tense atmosphere of summer 1940, Olivier Wieviorka shows how pressures brought on by defeat could affect even the most hardened republicans.
Author : Julian Jackson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674248899
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)
Download or read book France on Trial written by Julian Jackson and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In July 1945, France's disgraced former head of state was on trial. As head of the Vichy regime, Philippe Pétain was a lightning rod for collective guilt and retribution. But he has also been a conservative icon ever since. Julian Jackson blends courtroom drama and brilliant narrative history to examine one of history's great moral dilemmas.
Author : Richard Harrity
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Man of Destiny: De Gaulle of France written by Richard Harrity and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pictorial biography of the French president from his boyhood to the present.
Author : Dorothy Shipley White
Publisher : [Syracuse, N.Y.] Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Seeds of Discord written by Dorothy Shipley White and published by [Syracuse, N.Y.] Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1964 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weighing Allied moods and movements from June 1940 to November 1942, the author maintains De Gaulle's current disdain for "the Anglo-Saxons" springs from that bitter alliance.
Author : Michael S. Neiberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780674293885
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (938 download)
Download or read book When France Fell written by Michael S. Neiberg and published by . This book was released on 2023-10-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fall of France in 1940 panicked US leaders, leading to their fateful decision to recognize the pro-Nazi Vichy government. Michael Neiberg takes readers back to the fraught early years of World War II, when America's misguided policy on Vichy alienated its British ally and ensured tensions with Charles de Gaulle and the postwar French Republic.
