De Gaulle

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

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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, it was precisely because of these contradictions that De Gaulle was able to reconcile so many of the conflicting strands in French politics. In 1958, and 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 held to the present day.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-11-30
Mått129 x 198 x 18 mm
Vikt174 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor192
Upplaga24002
FörlagHaus Publishing
ISBN9781913368784

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DISOBEDIENCE: 1890-1944 // 1Early Years: 1890-1940 // 1Resistance 1940-42 // 14Liberation: 1943-4 // 29GOVERNMENT AND OPPOSITION: 1944-58 // 36Head of the Provisional Government: 1944-6 // 36Opposition: 1946-53 // 51The War Memoirs I: Inventing 'De Gaulle': 1953-8 // 63The War Memoirs II: Inventing 'Gaullism': 1953-8 // 72POWER: 1958-69 // 83Return to Power: May 1958 // 83Algeria: 1958-62 // 93De Gaulle's Foreign Policy: Pursuit of Grandeur // 111The Home Front: 1958-68 // 1301968 and After // 143CONCLUSION: THE ACHIEVEMENT AND THE LEGACY // 154Notes // 169Index // 175