Charles de Gaulle remains, for many, the quintessence of Gallic defiance through the dark years of World War II. Not only did he symbolise the famed resistance, he organised it, led it, conquered the Boche, and delivered national salvation after the humiliation of 1940.
As Robert Gildea makes clear in this new history of the French Resistance, it was not always thus. In France's moment of crisis, ...
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