000434545 000__ 04142cam\a2200445\a\4500 000434545 001__ 434545 000434545 005__ 20210513151944.0 000434545 008__ 941101s1993\\\\nyua\\\\\b\\\\001\0beng\\ 000434545 010__ $$a 94042881 000434545 019__ $$a39117677 000434545 020__ $$a9780471180715 (pbk. : alk. paper) 000434545 020__ $$a0471180718 (pbk. : alk. paper) 000434545 020__ $$a9780471117117 (alk. paper) 000434545 020__ $$a0471117110 (alk. paper) 000434545 035__ $$a(OCoLC)ocm31514512 000434545 035__ $$a434545 000434545 040__ $$aDLC$$beng$$cDLC$$dUKM$$dNRM$$dBAKER$$dNLGGC$$dBTCTA$$dYDXCP$$dOCLCG$$dMOF$$dSINLB$$dUBC$$dSXC$$dGEBAY$$dOCLCQ 000434545 043__ $$ae-fr--- 000434545 049__ $$aISEA 000434545 05000 $$aDC420$$b.W535 1993 000434545 08200 $$a944.83/6/092$$220 000434545 08204 $$aB$$220 000434545 1001_ $$aWilliams, Charles,$$d1933- 000434545 24514 $$aThe last great Frenchman :$$ba life of General de Gaulle /$$cCharles Williams. 000434545 260__ $$aNew York :$$bJ. Wiley & Sons,$$cc1993. 000434545 300__ $$axvi, 544 p. :$$bill. ;$$c24 cm. 000434545 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 000434545 5050_ $$aChild -- Soldier -- Exile -- Hero -- Politician -- Philosopher -- Head of state. 000434545 520__ $$a"I am France," General Charles de Gaulle announced when he formed the Free French in 1941. It was no idle boast. Following France's rapid capitulation to Nazi forces, de Gaulle alone stood for a France undefeated and still fighting. Through sheer force of will, he made himself heard, rescuing French dignity and insuring that at the end of World War II France would be among the victorious armies, her status as a world power recognized. It was an immense achievement, one that only a man of de Gaulle's raw nerve, stubbornness, arrogance, and messianic conviction could have accomplished. Though he had virtually no resources and commanded only a few thousand men, he insisted that Britain and America treat France as an equal. His relationship with Churchill was stormy in the extreme but based on a strong mutual admiration; with Roosevelt his relationship was icy. Nonetheless he achieved his goal: France took her place among the Big Five nations in the postwar world. The man who had been sentenced to death as a traitor by the Vichy government returned to France in 1944 a hero and a legend, soon to be elected president. In 1946 de Gaulle shocked the world by resigning. When he stepped back into the political arena twelve years later, it was to once again save a France in crisis. With the adroit maneuvering of a political mastermind he extricated France from Algeria and pulled the country back from the brink of civil war. He barely escaped with his life, surviving numerous assassination attempts by French-Algerians angered by his apparent betrayal. De Gaulle's second presidency lasted ten years until 1968, when student-led revolts toppled his government, but his extraordinary legacy endured in France's most effective constitution since the Revolution, and in international prestige that would have been unthinkable in the previous decade. Charles de Gaulle died in November 1970, a few days before his eightieth birthday. He was a product of northern French provincial society of the nineteenth century - austere, Catholic, and nationalist - truly the "last great Frenchman." In this fully rounded portrait of one of the twentieth century's most outstanding statesmen, Charles Williams interprets the facts and the motive of his subject with the insights of the distinguished politician he is himself. 000434545 60010 $$aGaulle, Charles de,$$d1890-1970. 000434545 61010 $$aFrance.$$bArmée$$vBiography. 000434545 650_0 $$aPresidents$$zFrance$$vBiography. 000434545 650_0 $$aGenerals$$zFrance$$vBiography. 000434545 650_0 $$aAuthors, French$$y20th century$$vBiography. 000434545 651_0 $$aFrance$$xPolitics and government$$y20th century. 000434545 651_0 $$aFrance$$xForeign relations$$y20th century. 000434545 85200 $$bgen$$hDC420$$i.W535$$i1993 000434545 85642 $$3Contributor biographical information$$uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/bios/wiley042/94042881.html 000434545 85642 $$3Publisher description$$uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/wiley034/94042881.html 000434545 85642 $$3Book review (H-Net)$$uhttp://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0a1d2-aa 000434545 8564_ $$3Table of Contents$$uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/onix05/94042881.html 000434545 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:434545$$pGLOBAL_SET 000434545 980__ $$aBIB 000434545 980__ $$aBOOK