Julian Jackson's biography is a worthy monument to this extraordinary figure. He has a good eye for the telling quotation and a magnificent capacity to place de Gaulle, one of the most fascinating subjects in twentieth-century politics, in his historical and political setting. The result is a wonderful history of modern France disguised as the biography of a statesman. -- Mark Mazower New York Review of Books Scholarship of the highest class ... a truly great book, for after this all other biographies can be cast aside. -- Simon Heffer Sunday Telegraph Only a great biography could do justice to such a man. This one does it, magnificently. -- Noel Malcolm Daily Telegraph More than just another, bigger, biography ...