Paris Game Charles de Gaulle, the Liberation of Paris, and the Gamble That Won France

Name: Paris Game Charles de Gaulle, the Liberation of Paris, and the Gamble That Won France
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ISBN: 9781459722866

ISBN-10: 1459722868

ISBN-13: 9781459722866

Edition: 2014

Authors: Ray Argyle, Maurice Vaï¿½sse, Maurice Vaï¿½sse

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Amid the ravages of a world war, three men — a general, a president, and a prime minister — are locked in a rivalry that threatens their partnership and puts the world's most celebrated city at risk of destruction before it can be liberated. This is the setting of The Paris Game, a dramatic recounting of how an obscure French general under sentence of death by his government launches on the most enormous gamble of his life: to fight on alone after his country's capitulation to Nazi Germany. In a game of intrigue and double-dealing, Charles de Gaulle must struggle to retain the loyalty of Winston Churchill against the unforgiving opposition of Franklin Roosevelt and the traitorous…

Book details

List price: $29.99
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Dundurn Press
Publication date: 8/2/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 488
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.15" tall
Weight: 1.694
Language: English

<p Ray Argyle is a journalist, the author of several books of biography and political history, and the recipient of a Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Medal for contributions to Canadian life. During his long association with France, he has spent many years tracking the political careers of Charles de Gaulle and his successors. He lives in Kingston, Ontario.</p