De Gaulle

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.

• 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

'A concise and distinguished book' Andrew Roberts