Julian Jackson's magnificent biography reveals this the life of this titanic figure as never before.
Julian Jackson is Emeritus Professor of History at Queen Mary, University of London and one of the foremost British scholars of twentieth-century France. A Certain Idea of France- The Life of Charles de Gaulle won the Duff Cooper Prize, the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography, the American Library in Paris Award, the Franco-British Society Literary Prize, the Grand Prix de la Biographie Politique du Touquet and the Prix Special du Jury de Prix de Geopolitique. His other books include France- The Dark Years, 1940-1944, which was shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times History Book Award, and The Fall of France, which won the Wolfson History Prize in 2004. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, Commandeur dans l'Ordre des Palmes Academiques and Officier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
Julian Jackson's biography is a worthy monument to this
extraordinary figure. He has a good eye for the telling quotation
and a magnificent capacity to place de Gaulle, one of the most
fascinating subjects in twentieth-century politics, in his
historical and political setting. The result is a wonderful history
of modern France disguised as the biography of a statesman.
*New York Review of Books*
Scholarship of the highest class ... a truly great book, for after
this all other biographies can be cast aside.
*Sunday Telegraph*
Only a great biography could do justice to such a man. This one
does it, magnificently.
*Daily Telegraph*
More than just another, bigger, biography ... he has the skill and
style to maintain a dramatic narrative over nearly 800 pages of
text
*Spectator*
A suitably monumental achievement.
*The Times*
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