Jean Lacouture

De Gaulle: The Rebel
1890-1944

"A feast, robust, subtle, joyful, complex, a celebration to be savored."—The New York Times Book Review

Beginning with his childhood in Lille, through heroic experiences in World War I, to that great moment of triumph, the liberation of Paris in August, 1944, De Gaulle: The Rebel reveals the highlights and shadows of this man obsessed with the history of France and with his own role in that history. Lacouture draws on de Gaulle's letters, his personal diaries, the writings of his contemporaries, military files, newspapers, the work of numerous historians, and de Gaulle's own published writings.