De Gaulle, by Julian Jackson (Belknap Press of Harvard University, 928 pp., $39.95) Charles de Gaulle was perhaps the most thoughtful and impressive statesman of the twentieth century. His only ...

As the French continue to pick over their World Cup debacle, which has been treated as a tragedy almost comparable to the fall of France in 1940, they console themselves with the memory of Charles de ...

One cannot talk long about the liberation of Paris, which culminated on Aug. 25, 1944, without stumbling over the gargantuan figure of Charles de Gaulle, who would go on from that day to become the ...

Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (22 November 1890 – 9 November 1970) was a French army officer and statesman who led Free France against Nazi Germany in World War II and chaired the Provisional ...

Charles de Gaulle remains a towering figure in France and arguably the greatest French leader since Napoleon. Professor Julian Jackson, Head of History at Queen Mary, has previously written about the ...

Who was the greater leader, Churchill or de Gaulle? A masterful professor and scholar, Richard Vinen, in his dual biography “The Last Titans: How Churchill and de Gaulle Saved Their Nations and ...

It was a BBC broadcast that shaped the course of French history. But according to a new study of the French wartime leader, General Charles de Gaulle's impassioned call for resistance to the Nazi ...

Tuesday marks 51 years since former French president Charles de Gaulle died, and politicians from across the political spectrum will be paying homage. Here's what you need to know about the wartime ...

In Gabriel Le Bomin's biopic 'De Gaulle,' Lambert Wilson portrays the famous general as he leads the Free French during several decisive weeks of the Second World War. By Jordan Mintzer As handsomely ...

How Charles de Gaulle’s story became a collective fairy tale that the French have agreed to believe in. Picture him as a legend, Joan of Arc in drag. A great nation is conquered by its historic enemy ...