“Treason,” the Napoleonic-era diplomat Talleyrand famously remarked, “is merely a matter of dates.” Yet it is really about so much more, as Charles de Gaulle biographer Julian Jackson illustrates in ...
A former banker and politician, Williams wrote an excellent biography of Charles de Gaulle, and he has now written one of de Gaulle's erstwhile superior and protector, Philippe Pétain. It is similarly ...
The relationship began in 1913, with de Gaulle supporting Pétain's (Tom Conti) unpopular military tactics – he favoured heavy artillery and shrewd defensive strategy, rather than running into the line ...
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