JULIAN JACKSON
A CERTAIN IDEA OF FRANCE: THE LIFE OF CHARLES DE GAULLE
Winner of the 2018 Duff Cooper Prize.
OUTLINE
Julian Jackson's biography draws on a vast range of published and unpublished memoirs and documents - including the recently opened de Gaulle archives - to show how de Gaulle achieved so much during the War when his resources were so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.
REVIEWS
Jackson is the author of a memorable sequence of histories of 1930s and 1940s France, but this the peak, lucid and witty from first to lats, charitable where possible, merciless where necessary. - Ferdinand Mount, London Review of Books.
'Masterly ... awesome reading ... an outstanding biography' Max Hastings, - Sunday Times.
as Jackson’s remarkable 900-page study ably demonstrates, no one played a more influential role in 20th-century France than De Gaulle. - the Guardian.
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