De Gaulle : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press : 9780674241459 : 0674241452 : 01 Jan 2025 : Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize Winner of the Elizabeth Longford Prize A New Yorker, Financial Times, Spectator, Times, and Telegraph Book of the Year In this definitive biography of the mythic general who refused to accept the Nazi domination of France, Julian Jackson captures Charles de Gaulle as never before. Drawing on unpublished letters, memoirs, and papers from the recently opened de Gaulle archive, he shows how this volatile visionary of staunch faith and conservative beliefs infuriated Churchill, challenged American hegemony, recognized the limitations of colonial ambitions in Algeria and Vietnam, and put a broken France back at the center of world affairs. ?With a fluent style and near-total command of existing and newly available sources?Julian Jackson has come closer than anyone before him to demystifying this conservative at war with the status quo, for whom national in