De gaulle biography lacouture indian
Jean Lacouture's monumental life of Charles de Gaulle has been hailed in France as one of the supreme works of contemporary biography: a meticulous and.
This second volume of Lacouture's acclaimed biography of Charles de Gaulle closes the circle on one of the most remarkable political lives of the 20th century....
De Gaulle 1: The Rebel, 1890-1944
His stubbornness, unpredictability, and either real or perceived ingratitude, do not endear him to Americans the same way they are fond of Churchill, or even Adenauer. Yet we also know he's not a bad man, the way we think of Stalin or Mao, or even more benign (from an American point of view) rulers like Franco.
He is, like France, more the brother you don't get along with, or the cousin you constantly find yourself infuriated by. In some ways loved, in others despised, yet still family.
De Gaulle.
But really, this isn't the correct way to look at DeGaulle either. Lacouture makes a convincing case that DeGaulle embodied France during it's darkest hours. His stubbornness, unpredictability, and the like, came from the fact that he believed that to save his country, not from fascist Germany, which he correctly and very quickly believ