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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Fenby, Jonathan.     Subjects     Gaulle, Charles de, 1890-1970.     Presidents -- France -- Biography.     Heads of state -- France -- Biography.     Generals -- France -- Biography.     World War, 1939-1945 -- France     France -- History -- 20th century.     France -- Politics and government -- 20th century.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Fenby, Jonathan.       by title:      The general : Charle...       by call number:      944.083 G269f     Search the Web     Fenby, Jonathan.     Gaulle, Charles de, 1890-1970.     Presidents -- France -- Biography.     Heads of state -- France -- Biography.     Generals -- France -- Biography.     World War, 1939-1945 -- France     France -- History -- 20th century.     France -- Politics and government -- 20th century.       MARC Display

The general : Charles de Gaulle and the France he saved / Jonathan Fenby. by Fenby, Jonathan. Skyhorse Pub., c2012. Call #: 944.083 G269f Subjects Gaulle, Charles de, 1890-1970.   Presidents -- France -- Biography.   Heads of state -- France -- Biography.   Generals -- France -- Biography.   World War, 1939-1945 -- France   France -- History -- 20th century.   France -- Politics and government -- 20th century. ISBN:  9781616086008 (hc.) 1616086009 (hc.) Alternate title:  Charles de Gaulle and the France he saved Description:  xii, 707 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. Notes:  "A Herman Graf Book." Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references and index. Summary:  No leader of modern times was more uniquely patriotic than Charles de Gaulle. As founder and first president of the Fifth Republic, General de Gaulle saw himself as "carrying France on [his] shoulders." 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's 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 through exhaustive research and analysis. Genre:  Biographies. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status Due Date   Woodlawn Public Library Adult Nonfiction 944.083 G269f Adult books Checked in   Add Copy to MyList Central Library Adult Biography 944.083 G269f Adult books Checked out Jul 19, 2024 Add Copy to MyList

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