De Gaulle

Name: De Gaulle
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ISBN: 9781904341444

ISBN-10: 1904341446

ISBN-13: 9781904341444

Edition: 2003

Authors: Julian Jackson

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Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), savior of France's honor in 1940 and founder of the Fifth Republic in 1958, was a deeply contradictory politician. A conservative and a Catholic, from a monarchist family, he restored democracy in 1944 and brought the Communists into his government. An imperialist in the 1940s, he completed France's decolonization in the 1960s. A soldier, he spent much of his career opposing the army. 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 and, for the first time since the Revolution, provide France with a universally accepted political system.

Book details

List price: $15.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Haus Publishing
Publication date: 5/1/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.80" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.264
Language: English



Disobedience 1890-1944


Early Years: 1890-1940


Resistance 1940-1942


Liberation: 1943-1944


Government and Opposition 1944-1958


Head of the Provisional Government: 1944-1946


Opposition: 1946-1953


The War Memoirs I: Inventing 'de Gaulle': 1953-1958


The War Memoirs II: Inventing 'Gaullism': 1953-1958


Power 1958-1969


Return to Power: May 1958


Algeria: 1958-1962


De Gaulle's Foreign Policy: Pursuit of Grandeur


The Home Front: 1958-1968


1968 and After


Conclusion: The Achievement and the Legacy


Notes


Chronology


Further Reading


Picture Sources


Index