Description
This is a landmark biography of Charles de Gaulle already hailed in France by the press as the definitve work on the legendary man. Not only is the book full of never-before-published correspondence with world leaders collected by the author from previously inaccessible archives in France, in the Soviet Union, Asia, and Israel, but it also contains excerpts of De Gaulle’s correspondence with artists and other public figures that sheds new light on the larger-than-life man and mind that laid the foundations of the French nation we know--but still grapple to fully understand--today. Roussel also shows the private side of de Gaulle: his family background, his modest upraising, and his aspirations to become a writer.
The book is written in clear prose, in chronological order, and is fully character driven. Its market is the general reader, as the best-seller lists in France have confirmed. Reviews are unanimously outstanding.