![]() ![]() “Makes awesome reading, and is a tribute to the fascination of its subject, and to Jackson’s mastery of it…A triumph, and hugely readable. Throughout, the book tells a thrilling story.” “A remarkable book in which the man widely chosen as the Greatest Frenchman is dissected, intelligently and lucidly, then put together again in an extraordinary fair-minded, highly readable portrait. “Classically composed and authoritative…Jackson writes wonderful political history.” ![]() “A sweeping-yet-concise introduction to the most brilliant, infuriating, and ineffably French of men.” Richard Norton Smith, Wall Street Journal “With a fluent style and near-total command of existing and newly available sources…Julian Jackson has come closer than anyone before him to demystifying this conservative at war with the status quo, for whom national interests were inseparable from personal honor.” Drawing on unpublished letters, memoirs, and papers from the recently opened de Gaulle archive, he shows how this volatile visionary of staunch faith and conservative beliefs infuriated Churchill, challenged American hegemony, recognized the limitations of colonial ambitions in Algeria and Vietnam, and put a broken France back at the center of world affairs. In this definitive biography of the mythic general who refused to accept the Nazi domination of France, Julian Jackson captures Charles de Gaulle as never before. A first translation of a work written nearly 80 years ago and still of profound interest.A New Yorker, Financial Times, Spectator, Times, and Telegraph Book of the Year A book that informs about its subject and author, who had come to assess German affairs as a prisoner of war. "De Gaulle's early masterpiece: a brilliant account of the internal divisions in Germany that led to its defeat in 1918, focusing on the flawed character of its leaders, on the civilian-military conflicts, and on morale. Also very valuable for the French scholar because of the detailed and thoughtful introduction."- Society Thanks to the patient work of Robert Eden, the very beginning of de Gaulle's career as a moralist and a politician is now available to the English-reading public. "An indispensable document for studying the question of how a great leader comes into existence. "De Gaulle was a talented writer and historian, so his first book -clearly translated by Robert Eden-makes enjoyable reading."- International History Review Deserves careful reading by those who want a fascinating look into the 'house of the enemy.'"- Journal of Military History "Those interested in World War I and Charles de Gaulle should be grateful to Professor Robert Eden for his fine translation of de Gaulle's first book. This first English translation will be of great interest to all levels of readership."- Choice The editor's excellent translation and even better introduction and notes make this lucid and penetrating book particularly worthwhile-a gift to those interested in one of the most intriguing soldier-statesmen of the past century."- Foreign Affairs "A fascinating study of the relationship between high command and social cohesion, strategic choice and political intrigue. His first book, it is also a key document of de Gaulle's "philosophy of action," introducing his statesmanship to the world with its deliberate and studied critique of the perils of Nietzsche's philosophical initiative. His diagnosis of the profound moral crisis that unfolded in Germany during World War I points forward to 1940, for de Gaulle understood the fall of France, above all, as a moral catastrophe for the French. He seeks to identify the internecine causes of the collapse of the German war effort in 1918 and of the subsequent dissolution of the German Empire. To de Gaulle, the German conduct of the Great War and the debacle of 1918 was the greatest moral disaster ever to befall a modern civilized political community. Location: Paris-Charles de Gaulle Terminal 2D (present on the car hire vehicle -exterior-) and Orly 1-2 Interrent in the airport. Based partly on observations made during his internment as a prisoner of war from 1916 to 1918, it can be seen as the foundation for everything he wrote in the 1920s and 1930s in the shadow of German resurgence and for much of what he said and did after the Nazi victory in June of 1940. Paris-Charles de Gaulle Paris-Orly Book your car park online. ![]() Originally published in 1924 and available here in English for the first time, The Enemy's House Divided is Charles de Gaulle's analysis of the major errors that led the Germans to disaster in World War I. ![]()
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