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‘distinguished book’ (Andrew Roberts Sunday Telegraph )
‘Jackson tells this epic story with skill and understanding. His smartly produced book presents an admirably rounded portrait of its enigmatic subject, using telling quotations to probe a man who contained as many contradictions as the country with which he so thoroughly identified.’ (Jonathan Fenby BBC History Magazine )
‘Jackson tells this epic story with skill and understanding. His smartly produced book presents an admirably rounded portrait of its enigmatic subject, using telling quotations to probe a man who contained as many contradictions as the country with which he so thoroughly identified.’ (Jonathan Fenby BBC History Magazine )
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Charles de Gaulle, saviour of France's honour in 1940 and founder of the Fifth Republic in 1958, was a man of contradictions. A conservative who brought the communists into his government and an imperialist who completed France's decolonisation in Algeria.
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Overall, a good read. I liked how Julian Jackson also commented on his remoteness and egs of ingratitude to the resistance, and not just how he was arguably the most important frenchman during this period. Also, good background info on him.
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Julian Jackson does the life, meaning, legacy, and myth of the outstanding Frenchman of the latter half of the twentieth century, all in 170 pages. The author is a scholar but a lively writer, and he knows whom to quote to take in the larger view. (I love where De Gaulle, a reader of conservative taste, admits to sampling the naughty Francoise Sagan "for the subjunctives"). The book is not only short but small, yet it is packed with information thanks to Jackson's tight writing style. There are also a great many illustrations running through the book, some in color.
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