Charles de Gaulle

Liberator of France · President of the Republic · President of France · 1890–1970

The soldier who refused France's defeat in 1940 and, two decades later, gave her back her grandeur.

Explore the life of de Gaulle — five chapters

1. The Officer Nobody Listened To — Verdun, captivity, and a theory about tanks
2. 18 June 1940 — A broadcast from a country that had not surrendered
3. Resignation and Twelve Years Out — Refusing the party system, then waiting
4. Algeria — Ending a war that had brought France to the edge
5. Grandeur, 1968, and a Referendum He Lost — An independent France, and an ending on his own terms

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