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'A concise and distinguished book' Andrew Roberts.
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A deep look into Charles de Gaulle's personality and upbringing and how these factors influenced the creation of the Fifth Republic in France.
Charles de Gaulle, saviour of France's honour in 1940 and founder of the Fifth Republic, was a man and leader of deep contradictions. A conservative and a Catholic from a monarchist family, he restored democracy on his return to France in 1944, bringing the Communists into his government. An imperialist, he oversaw the final stages of France's withdrawal from its last colonies in the 1960s. As a soldier, he spent much of his career in opposition to France's military establishment.
Yet, as Julian Jackson shows in De Gaulle, it was precisely because of these contradictions that he was able to reconcile so many of the conflicting strands in French politics. In 1958, in response to a coup by the French military in Algeria, De Gaulle introduced a new political system, the Fifth Republic, ushering in a period of stability that has been upheld to the present day.
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De Gaulle by Julian Jackson has been praised as a concise and distinguished biography of an iconic French leader. Andrew Roberts appreciates Jackson's detailed examination of Charles de Gaulle’s life, narrating his influential role with an engaging and scholarly approach.
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ISBN: 9781913368784
Publisher: Haus Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 30 November 2023
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Haus Publishing
Audience: General / adult
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Width: 129.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 192
About the Author
Julian Jackson is emeritus professor of history at Queen Mary University of London and one of the foremost British scholars of twentieth-century France. His book A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles de Gaulle won the Duff Cooper Prize. He is a fellow of the British Academy.
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