Julian Jackson.
JULIAN JACKSON
A CERTAIN IDEA OF FRANCE: THE LIFE OF CHARLES DE GAULLE (2018)
Winner of the 2018 Duff Cooper Prize.
This 900 page biography describes De Gaulle’s rise in the French army between the wars, his exile in London during the Second World War, and his towering role in French politics as President of the country.
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Julian Jackson (born 1954) is a British historian. He was educated at Peterhouse, Cambridge, where in 1982 he obtained his PhD on the subject of the Great Depression in France. After teaching for several years at the University of Wales, Swansea, Jackson moved in 2003 to the history department of Queen Mary University. He has written several books on the 20th century history of France. Two of these (his biographies of de Gaulle and Marshal Petain) have won the Duff Cooper Prize.
