A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles de Gaulle by Julian Jackson

A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles de Gaulle

Julian Jackson

887 pages first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction autobiography biography history dark informative slow-paced
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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 defe...

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