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Автор: Jackson, Julian (Джулиан Джексон)
Название: A Certain Idea of France
Перевод названия: Джулиан Джексон: Определяющая идея Франции
ISBN: 9780141049533
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
Классификация:

Биографии исторических, политических и военных деятелей

История Европы

История 20 века: с 1900 по 2000

Вторая мировая война

Политика и политический строй

Политические лидеры и политическое руководство

Военные действия и оборона

ISBN-10: 0141049537
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 928
Вес: 1.10 кг.
Дата издания: 06.06.2019
Язык: English
Размер: 130 x 196 x 51
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
Подзаголовок: The life of charles de gaulle
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize for History, the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography, the American Library in Paris Award and the Franco-British Society Literary PrizeA SUNDAY TIMES, THE TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN, SPECTATOR, FINANCIAL TIMES, TLS BOOK OF THE YEARMasterly ... awesome reading ... an outstanding biography Max Hastings, Sunday TimesIn six weeks in the early summer of 1940, France was over-run by German troops and quickly surrendered.

The French government of Marshal Petain 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 Frances 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 Jacksons 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.

A Certain Idea of France, Jackson, Julian