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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 : Jean Raymond Tournoux
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (66 download)
Download or read book Sons of France: Pétain and DeGaulle written by Jean Raymond Tournoux and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 : Jean Raymond Tournoux
Publisher : Viking Adult
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 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 : 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 : Dorothy Shipley White
Publisher : [Syracuse, N.Y.] Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( 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 496 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 : 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 : 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 :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (463 download)
Download or read book Sons of France written by Jean Raymond Tournoux and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paige Bowers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781613736098
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (36 download)
Download or read book The General's Niece written by Paige Bowers and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Based on interviews with family members, former associates, prominent historians, and never-before-seen papers written by Geneviaeve de Gaulle, [this] is the first English-language biography of Charles de Gaulle's niece, confidante, and daughter figure ... Finally emerging from the shadow of her famous uncle, the life of this little-known de Gaulle adds a ... layer to the history of the second world war, including the French resistance, the horrors of and unshakeable bonds formed at Ravensbruck, and the issues facing postwar France and its leaders"--Amazon.com.
Author : Antony Beevor
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101175079
Total Pages : 469 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Paris After the Liberation 1944-1949 written by Antony Beevor and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-08-31 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A rich and intriguing story whcih the authors disentangle with great skill."--Sunday Telegraph From Antony Beevor, the internationally bestselling author of D-Day and The Battle of Arnhem In this brilliant synthesis of social, political, and cultural history, Antony Beevor and Artemis Cooper present a vivid and compelling portrayal of the City of Lights after its liberation. Paris became the diplomatic battleground in the opening stages of the Cold War. Against this volatile political backdrop, every aspect of life is portrayed: scores were settled in a rough and uneven justice, black marketers grew rich on the misery of the population, and a growing number of intellectual luminaries and artists including Hemingway, Beckett, Camus, Sartre, de Beauvoir, Cocteau, and Picassocontributed new ideas and a renewed vitality to this extraordinary moment in time.
Author : Patrice Gueniffey
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674988388
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)
Download or read book Napoleon and de Gaulle written by Patrice Gueniffey and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of France’s most famous historians compares two exemplars of political and military leadership to make the unfashionable case that individuals, for better and worse, matter in history. Historians have taught us that the past is not just a tale of heroes and wars. The anonymous millions matter and are active agents of change. But in democratizing history, we have lost track of the outsized role that individual will and charisma can play in shaping the world, especially in moments of extreme tumult. Patrice Gueniffey provides a compelling reminder in this powerful dual biography of two transformative leaders, Napoleon Bonaparte and Charles de Gaulle. Both became national figures at times of crisis and war. They were hailed as saviors and were eager to embrace the label. They were also animated by quests for personal and national greatness, by the desire to raise France above itself and lead it on a mission to enlighten the world. Both united an embattled nation, returned it to dignity, and left a permanent political legacy—in Napoleon’s case, a form of administration and a body of civil law; in de Gaulle’s case, new political institutions. Gueniffey compares Napoleon’s and de Gaulle’s journeys to power; their methods; their ideas and writings, notably about war; and their postmortem reputations. He also contrasts their weaknesses: Napoleon’s limitless ambitions and appetite for war and de Gaulle’s capacity for cruelty, manifested most clearly in Algeria. They were men of genuine talent and achievement, with flaws almost as pronounced as their strengths. As many nations, not least France, struggle to find their soul in a rapidly changing world, Gueniffey shows us what a difference an extraordinary leader can make.
Author : Jonathan Lynn
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571331033
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)
Download or read book The Patriotic Traitor written by Jonathan Lynn and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2016-03-17 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phillipe Pétain, a tough, uncompromising soldier who rose through the ranks to save France in 1916 Battle of Verdun. Charles de Gaulle, the aristocratic, academic and equally uncompromising soldier who led France to freedom when, decades later, Pétain became a Nazi collaborator. Two giants of the twentieth century who loved each other like father and son until they found themselves on opposing sides in World War II. In 1945 de Gaulle had his oldest friend tried for treason. Their complex relationship - noble, comic and absurd - changed history. Jonathan Lynn's The Patriotic Traitor tells the extraordinary story of these great men as Pétain awaits his verdict. The Patriotic Traitor premiered at the Park Theatre, London, in February 2016.
