De Gaulle. History of France 1940-1969

The book presented on the Court of the reader about Colonel Charle de Gaulle is not so much by his biography, how much is the description of one of the most turbulent periods in the history of France, who came on the years of political activities to anyone who is not a well-known army officer, has never been engaged in politics. Two narratives - about the political fate of de Gaulle and about the tragic fate of France of those years - go in the book as if in parallel. The incredibly rapid take-off de Gaulle on the most tops of world politics began at the time of even more rapid collapse of France. On June 7, 1940, de Gaulle flies out of Bordeaux to London, and the next day, June 18, turns to the British radio to the French people with a call for resistance. Twenty-second June, France signs surrender. In these extremely severe days for France, June 1940 and began the political biography of Colonel de Gaulle, who only a month earlier in the French army in the French army, deployed deep in the province. In the army de Gaulle will no longer return. All his remaining life will be devoted to politics. He will pass the second world war and will be largely a graveman of the French colonial empire, having exercised a huge one, as no other, contribution to the creation of France, which we know it today