De Gaulle.
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 1973
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 726
ISBN-13: 9780684129969
Copyright date: 1973
Subjects: Gaulle, Charles de, 1890-1970
Description: "The first complete biography" - jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Part 1 : The enigma of De Gaulle.; title: The man; title: Historical prologue; title: Part 2 : Historian and thinker 1890-1939.; title: Pupil of the Jesuits (1890-1909); title: The young officer (1909-1918); title: The historian (1919-1924); title: Petain's protege (1924-1932); title: A prophet ignored (1932-1939); title: Part 3 : Free France 1939-1945.; title: The defeat (1939-1940); title: The challenge; title: The Free French; title: Divided they fall; title: De Gaulle versus his allies; title: Roosevelt in the ascendant; title: Torch and after; title: Casablanca; title: Algiers; title: The resistance; title: Roots of the Fourth Republic; title: The agony of France; title: Part 4 : The liberation and after 1944-1946.; title: Jostling for position; title: De Gaulle's Parisian triumph; title: Trial of strength; title: Foreign disappointments; title: International discords; title: Vichy on trial; title: The patient stirs; title: De Gaulle steps down; title: Part 5 : The Fourth Republic 1946-1958.; title: Birth and challenge; title: Triumph and collapse; title: In the wilderness; title: De Gaulle returns; title: Part 6 : The Fifth Republic.; title: De Gaulle breaks the opposition (1958-1962); title: The Atlantic Directorate Affair; title: Europe and the world; title: The pressure mounts; title: The roots of discontent; title: Storm and aftermath; title: Exit and death; title: Part 7 : De Gaulle in history.; title: Man and showman; title: Soldier and writer; title: Politician and statesman