De Gaulle (Life & Times series) by Julian Jackson

De Gaulle (Life & Times series) by Julian Jackson

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Roger Casement's revolutionary fire was lit in the Congo where he saw at first hand some of the worst abuses of the colonial project. The fire burned hotter in Brazil, where he gradually became convinced that exploitation and abuse were inextricably linked with the exercise of imperial power.

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De Gaulle (Life & Times series) by Julian Jackson

Charles de Gaulle, saviour of France's honour in 1940 and founder of the Fifth Republic in 1958, was a man of contradictions. He is a conservative who brought the communists into his government and an imperialist who completed France's decolonisation in Algeria.
'distinguished book' -- Andrew Roberts Sunday Telegraph 'Jackson tells this epic story with skill and understandingHis smartly produced book presents an admirably rounded portrait of its enigmatic subject, using telling quotations to probe a man who contained as many contradictions as the country with which he so thoroughly identified.' -- Jonathan Fenby BBC History Magazine

Julian Jackson is Emeritus Professor of History at Queen Mary, University of London, and one of the foremost British scholars of twentieth-century France. He is the author of A Certain Idea of France and, most recently, France on Trial.

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ISBN 13 9781904341444
ISBN 10 1904341446
Title De Gaulle (Life & Times series)
Author Julian Jackson
Series Life And Times Ser
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Haus Publishing
Year published 2003-07-14
Number of pages 192
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