Julian Jackson's magnificent biography reveals this the life of this titanic figure as never before.
Julian Jackson is Professor of History at Queen Mary, University of London and one of the foremost British experts on twentieth-century France. His previous books include France- The Dark Years, 1940-1944, which was shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times History Book Award, and his celebrated The Fall of France, which won the Wolfson History Prize in 2004. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and Commandeur dans l'Ordre des Palmes Academiques.
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.
-- Mark Mazower * New York Review of Books *
Scholarship of the highest class ... a truly great book, for after
this all other biographies can be cast aside. -- Simon Heffer *
Sunday Telegraph *
Only a great biography could do justice to such a man. This one
does it, magnificently. -- Noel Malcolm * 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 -- Robert Tombs * Spectator *
A suitably monumental achievement. -- Lewis Jones * The Times *
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