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Critical acclaim for The Last Great Frenchman
"This is a splendid popular biography . . . recounted with verve and anecdotal warmth, along with fresh appraisals of de Gaulle's career as soldier, politician, and head of state." âPublishers Weekly.
"Highly readable. . . . It is to Williams' credit that he is able to get so close to such a prickly personality." âSan Francisco Chronicle
"Charles Williams has matched a great subject by something near to a great book." âDaily Telegraph (London)
"Marvelous vignettes. . . . Williams tells his story with pace and skill." âMartin Gilbert
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Great and Obstinate figure of History.......2006-01-15
Truly a great figure of the 20th century. As the author points out de Gaulle would have been a minor footnote in French history if he had died before 1940. At the age of 50 he stepped unto English soil after leaving France where he had been condemned to death for refusing to go along with the French government in signing the armistice with Germany. His strength and moral courage brought France out of the abyss of collaboration to (once again) a player on the world stage.
De Gaulle is accurately portrayed by Williams as an uncompromising man - he skillfully out-maneuvered his rival, Giraud in Algeria during the war to place himself as the sole leader of Fighting France. De Gaulle was to share power with no man. The constant quarrels with Churchill would be humorous if there was not a war to be won. And as Williams states that war, for De Gaulle, was against Britain and the U.S. De Gaulle's single-minded vision was to return France to a position of power at the conclusion of the war. If that meant irritating Roosevelt and Churchill more than Hitler - so be it. Probably De Gaulle's biggest miscalculation, as Williams' points out was with Roosevelt. De Gaulle never comprehended the man or the nation. De Gaulle had a European view of the world and did not have Churchill's grasp of everything that the U.S. had to offer for the liberation of Europe. Roosevelt was reluctant to fight for the British empire and was therefore much less interested in preserving France's external holdings and viewed De Gaulle as a brash upstart with truthfully little to offer in terms of military strength.
Ironically De Gaulle himself came to see that anti-colonial point of view in the early 60's when Algeria was granted autonomy with the blessing of European France.
Williams' illustrates on several occasions how De Gaulle's sheer strength of personality and his ability to irritate most anyone on any occasion, including his fellow countrymen, makes for a great historical biography of an extraordinary individualist.
the only book worth reading on the French.......2003-09-19
De Gaulle was, as this book points out, the last great frenchmen. Some will debate this raising the name of Mitterand, but De Gaulle looms over france like an albatross as the conscience of the nation.
De Gaulle was influenced as a young man by the injustice of the Dreyfuss case. The hatred of inequality would later convince De Gaulle to fight to the death rather then submit to Nazi terror.
The book details De Gaulle as the war hero in WWI. He went on to write about the new generation of tanks and how best to employ them(as the Germans would) in concentrations. During WWII De Gaulle found himself watching the government vascilate and finally give in to the hated Germans. To cap it off De Gaulles WWI hero Petain was the one to give in to the Nazis. De Gaulle fled to Britian to carry on the conflict and he was found guilty of treason by the Vichy french.
De Gaulle carrried the honor of france abroad, helped to liberate hte colonies from the Vichy and finally leading the french back to Paris. De Gaulles later carerr found him helping to extricate the french from Algeria.
A wonderful book, easy to read and enthralling.
The Last Great Frenchman: A Life of Gen. De Gaulle.......2001-09-06
Mr. Williams' book is a first rate introduction to the life and times of Gen. de Gaulle. For students of WWII and modern world politics, the perspective presented is fresh and thought provoking. I found it a good companion to the General's own memiors. It is hard not to have a opinion about a man who had such forceful opinions himself, and never seemed to be afraid of expressing them or the resulting controversy. The book is fair and balanced in it's coverage of the subject though occasionally light on background and reasons to explain the General's actions. The fact must be acknowledged that some actions could only be explained "because he was de Gaulle". Mr. Williams' writing of the Petain - de Gaulle relationship is the most complete and impartial report I have read.
The quality of the printing and photo reproduction, in the paperback version I read, was very good.
English language books on modern French history are not abundant. This is a excellant volume to start off with or
add to a collection.
An apt title.......2001-05-19
Is it possible to love your county too much? If your love of country leads you to break with most of the political leaders of your day and flee to a foreign shore to resist the creators of the Holocaust, the answer is no. If it leads you to snub leaders of the countries that liberated your captive nation -- with the consequent political fall-out -- the answer may be different. The public de Gaulle emerges from these pages as fiercely patriotic, complex, shrewd and obstinate, even as he appears sensitive and introspective in private, and France was better for his birth. In every good drama, the protagonist undergoes a change. This biography is like a good drama. I won't reveal the personal crisis and other events which, according to the author, enlarged de Gaulle between World War II and his return to power in the 50s, but I will say it makes thoughtful reading. This biography also discusses de Gaule's ten year reign in France as President. Particularly interesting is his cultivation of third world countries in pursuit of French influence in the World. His fall from power is also described. Biographies tend to be bitter-sweet, ending as they do in decline and death. This biography is like that. Yet de Gaulle remained de Gaulle to the end.
A captivating biography.......2000-05-15
For the first half of the book, it seems like the British author (who spent time in France) portrays de Gaulle with a little too much sympathy. Any such notions are quickly dispelled in the second half, where de Gaulle is clearly shown to be "in the wrong" on several occasions. On the whole, the writing is very well done. Although fairly thick, it flows well. It normally takes me a while to finish books, but this one went very fast. I was especially captivated by the plays of Roosevelt vs. de Gaulle. It is quite possible that the rift in US/French relations happened as a result of the animosity between these two extremely obstinate men.
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- A killer ending.
- Forsyth at full force
- Quite simply, the best thriller ever written
- The International Man of Mystery
- Still a classic
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The Day of the Jackal (Best Mysteries of All Time)
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A killer ending........2007-08-06
I usually don't describe books as something "I couldn't put down" but this is an exception. "The Day of The Jackal" is a page-turning thriller from start to finish.
Frederick Forsyth puts his keen newsman's eye and pen to describing the intracacies and frustrations of police work. The author builds the French assassination plot/worldwide manhunt into a crescendo before making one final U-turn that leaves you knowing there was more to the story.
I could write a book about the ending itself but I'll resist doing that here so as not to spoil things for those who haven't read the book.
I'm tempted to look for answers in "The Odessa File" (Forsyth's other famous novel) since Odessa (a post-World War II Nazi SS diaspora society) is mentioned in "Jackal." Yet the Detective Lebel in me suspects that most of the answers are tucked inside the taut sentences of "The Day of the Jackal."
Forsyth at full force.......2007-08-02
After many failed attempts to assassinate Charles de Gaulle by the local French militant organization, an outside professional (the Jackal) is hired. The way in which Forsyth puts together a story, it has us even rooting for the assassins.
Forsyth's observant mind is at full force: with detailed detective work and the assassin's planning stages. Wonderful visualization and knowledge of the French culture and architecture. My only gripe is the French dialect slows down the reading pace. This is a complete and well thought out novel.
Wish you well
Scott
Quite simply, the best thriller ever written.......2007-01-28
This was unfortunate for Freddie Forsyth, because he was never able to match it. But then, neither was anyone else. Set in the aftermath of the Algerian crisis in the early 1960s in which an entire Foreign Legion paratroop regiment mutinied and formed the OAS (Secret Army Organisation), there was an attempt on the life of French President Charles de Gaulle and France trembled on the edge of civil war, the story is meticulously put together and excitingly told, with a bit of repetition of language (Mr. Forsyth seems to like trains; several times he described the demolition of someone's expectations or his person as if hit by a train). The Jackal, hired by the OAS to assassinate De Gaulle, is a cold-blooded killer who's in it purely for the money, yet curiously you find yourself rooting just a little for him. And you KNOW that Charles de Gaulle died in his bed in Colombey Les Deux Églises in 1969, so the Jackal can't possibly succeed, yet the book keeps you reading right to the end - and the O. Henry-type twist that has become somewhat of a Forsyth trademark. By the way, most of the French politicians mentioned were real people in De Gaulle's government.
All in all, a brilliantly-conceived and -presented thriller. I have yet to find a better one. (For what it's worth, Fred Zinneman's film of the novel, with Edward Fox as the Jackal, is also excellent. Avoid like the plague the appalling US remake starring Bruce Willis).
The International Man of Mystery.......2007-01-23
The Day of the Jackal, by Frederic Forsyth
This fast-paced 1971 novel is based in part on the actual events that occurred in 1960s France. The revolt in 1954 Algeria created troubles that brought Charles De Gaulle to power in 1958. The French army put an end to the revolt in Algeria, but the expenses resulted in a peace settlement and an independent Algeria. France lost one of its oldest and closest colonies. Elements in France and Algeria blamed De Gaulle for this political decision. They formed the Secret Army Organization (OAS), and decided to remove De Gaulle from power. Chapter One tells about the 1962 assassination attempt. The French Secret Services soon put an end to the OAS. This book imagines another plot by the OAS to assassinate De Gaulle, and story develops this idea to its logical conclusion.
Since all the supporters of the OAS were known to the French Secret Services they decided to find a foreigner who was unknown and could travel freely in France to do the job. The only way to keep this plan secret is to let only a few know of the plans. This hired assassin will not be cheap. The Englishman explains why a professional is superior to an amateur. June and July 1963 saw a huge amount of armed robberies in France. Any Belgian can buy a pistol or rifle at any sports or gun shop. Brussels had a long tradition of forging official documents. The Jackal sought a sniper's location on the sixth floor near the plaza where De Gaulle would visit on August 25, the anniversary of the Liberation of Paris in 1944. A fire escape would allow an escape. Preparations for his disguises continued. We learn that industrialists and bankers would put up the cash to pay for the assassination. The book tells what a mercury-filled bullet would do: explode on contact.
The French Secret Service captured and questioned a guard for the OAS; Victor talked. Colonel Rolland figured out the plot and warned his superiors. De Gaulle orders no publicity; the search for the Jackal would be kept secret. They will use the best detective in Paris, Charles Lebel. Lebel knows that slow, precise, methodical investigation solves crimes. The OAS has planted a spy close to a high-level Minister who learns about the plans and sends a warning to her contact. But the OAS high-command cannot recall the operation. The Jackal receives this warning but decided to continue the operation. The police continues the search but the Jackal seems to be forewarned and escapes their traps. The French police appear to be closing in on their target. The Jackal knows all the tricks to disappear in a Paris where the police searched high and low. Organized crime was also looking for this individual, but neither had success. Lebel figures out that August 25 is a major holiday. President De Gaulle will appear in public places during the day. That is when the Jackal will strike and then make his getaway. Detective Lebel goes around questioning the gendarmes on crowd control. One tells of letting an old one-legged man pass. Level know this is his man, and they race to the top floor. Lebel gets to personally say goodbye to the Jackal. [Would this detective be on the job unarmed?]
This is an interesting story in itself. It has eerie parallels to the events of November 22, 1963 in Dallas. A hired assassin will always use a rifle to he can escape while the police are trying to figure out where the shot came from. This story glides over the implausibilities. What if the gendarme on crowd control refused to let the old one-legged veteran pass?
Still a classic.......2006-11-10
...but I do not remember it being as slow the last time I read it as it was for me this time. Maybe it has more to do with my difficulties pronouncing all of the incredibly long french names and words.
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Mahoney provides a comprehensive study of the thought and action of Charles de Gaulle. This volume is neither a biography nor a historical narrative, although it addresses important aspects of de Gaulle's life and political career. Mahoney asserts that de Gaulle is systematically misunderstood, especially in the Anglo-American world. He is sometimes dismissed as a narrow or quixotic nationalist, pigeon-holed as an irrational anti-American, and often labelled with various anti-democratic appellations such as Bonapartist or Nietzschean. In responding to this wide-spread misunderstanding, Mahoney analyzes de Gaulle's approach to the "problem" of modern democracy. De Gaulle believed that human beings were political animals who naturally desired to live in communities dedicated to shared, noble purposes. He also knew that modern men are individuals who resist or ignore these purposes. The statesman-writer de Gaulle believed it was the task of statesmanship to kindle these political purposes by reaching for the summits--for the dazzling light of national unity and ambition that he called "grandeur." Mahoney shows that de Gaulle did not despair of liberal democracy; he did not succumb to the illusions of the impatient or tyrannical that "anything" is better than democratic mediocrity. This is an important corrective to scholars and students of modern political thought and European history, as well as an invaluable guide to democratic statesmanship in our time.
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De Gaulle as Political Philosopher.......2005-02-15
Mahoney has done us the favour of going through De Gaulle's principal writings and speeches to reveal a political philosopher of trenchant insight and immanent applicability. This book is essential for understanding De Gaulle and for his contribution to political thought. It has the grace both to be quite well-written and also to encompass its topic in 150 pages. Especially intriguing is the discussion of De Gaulle's debt to Charles Peguy; especially timely is De Gaulle wise objection to Jean Monnet's European project. De Gaulle was indeed an arrogant man - with much to be arrogant about!
Mahoney is one of the few writers who successfully overturns conventional thinking. Newman taught that the conventional wisdom about the Catholic Faith is wrong. Clyde Wilson has taught that the conventional wisdom about Calhoun is wrong. Thomas DiLorenzo has taught that the conventional wisdom about Lincoln and his war is wrong. Murray Rothbard taught that the conventional wisdom about the Great Depression is wrong. Jim Powell has taught that the conventional wisdom about Franklin Roosevelt is wrong. Thomas Fleming and Jim Powell have taught that the conventional wisdom about Woodrow Wilson is wrong. Hans-Hermann Hoppe has taught that the conventional wisdom about democracy is wrong. Kuehnelt-Leddihn taught that the conventional wisdom about royalism is wrong. Martin van Creveld has taught that the conventional wisdom about war is wrong. Niall Fergusson has taught that the conventional wisdom about World War I is wrong. Böhm-Bawerk taught that the conventional wisdom about Marx is utterly wrong. Dr Atkins taught that the conventional wisdom about dieting is wrong. And Daniel J. Mahoney has taught that the conventional (Anglo-American) wisdom about De Gaulle is wrong.
No small achievement.
The best book on de Gaulle's thought there is.......2001-10-04
With this book, you will go a long way towards understanding the congenitally misunderstood figure of Charles de Gaulle. And he's well worth understanding. This book is not a biography and is not organized chronologically. Rather, each chapter delves into different aspects of his political philosophy -- what were his ideas and where did he get them from?
Here is a sampling of some of the themes explored in this book: How de Gaulle interpreted French history, with a discreet preference for the Old Regime and ambivalence towards Napoleon, whose grandeur led him to contempt for moral and physical limits. An analysis of his early writings where he gives a self-portrait describing the "man of character" who is "made for great deeds." His deep moral sense of Christianity and democracy combined with his "egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning." How de Gaulle came to his 1940 decision that resistance was the only legitimate course of action. Why he saw the "constitutional correction" of 1958 as necessary. His views on European union.
The author is obviously admiring of de Gaulle but does not brush away his weak points -- the main one perhaps being that de Gaulle rhetorically treated the two superpowers as though they were an equal danger to France. In the end de Gaulle emerges as a supporter of democracy, but one who is not afraid to criticize its negative aspects. His idea that one must work against democracy's tendancy to promote mediocrity and conformity of ideas is straight out of Alexis de Tocqueville. If you want to get inside the head of de Gaulle, you've got to get your hands on this slim and profoundly thoughtful volume. I found it absolutely fascinating.
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Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), savior of France’s honor in 1940 and founder of the Fifth Republic in 1958, was a deeply contradictory politician. A conservative and a Catholic, from a monarchist family, he restored democracy in 1944 and brought the Communists into his government. An imperialist in the 1940s, he completed France’s decolonization in the 1960s. A soldier, he spent much of his career opposing the army. Yet, as Julian Jackson shows, it was precisely because of these contradictions that De Gaulle was able to reconcile so many of the conflicting strands in French politics and, for the first time since the Revolution, provide France with a universally accepted political system.
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The Almost Impossible Ally: Harold Macmillan and Charles de Gaulle
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In 1963, General de Gaulle (described by the Foreign Office as Prime Minister Macmillan's "almost impossible ally") aggressively vetoed Britain's first bid to join the Common Market. It was a blow that delayed Britain's entry for a decade and hastened the end of Harold Macmillan's political career. Peter Mangold explores the complex issues that bound the two men in the post-war world, from decolonization to co-operation in the Cold War, and the character traits that separated them in this fascinating portrait of an Anglo-French friendship that turned sour.
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July 14. One of Europe's most sinister terrorist organizations hatches a brilliant plan to assassinate the feared and powerful leader of France, President Charles de Gaulle. Max Palk, an extraordinarily talented British secret agent, is summoned to Paris to hunt down the assassins before it is too late. Ensnared in a terrifying web of doublecross and death, Palk races against the clock to outmaneuver, outshoot, and outthink his increasingly desperate foes.
A decade before The Day of the Jackal appeared, Ben Abro's Assassination! July 14 became an international sensation, thanks to its sizzling plot, an ingenious, intellectual hero, and a realistic depiction of France's volatile political scene in the 1960s. In fact, the novel proved too real, provoking outrage and a lawsuit that shut down its publication. For the first time in decades, this gripping, underground thriller is again widely available. The equally riveting story behind the novel and the controversy it spawned are carefully explained in an informative essay by James D. Le Sueur. Drawing upon interviews with the authors, court transcripts, and recent evidence and scholarship, Le Sueur examines how an item of popular culture could have had such national and international repercussions.
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Literature and Politics Collide.......2002-02-26
Originally published in 1963 (ten years before The Day of the Jackal), this thriller written under a pseudonym by two English graduate students was originally conceived as a reaction to Ian Fleming's wildly popular James Bond series. However, it also drew upon the extremely volatile contemporary French political scene for plot inspiration, notably using real name and identity of Jacques Soustelle. The book's rediscoverer and champion, James Le Sueur, rightly notes in his accompanying historical essay that the book was at the cutting edge of the new political thriller genre which blurred fact and fiction, but perhaps overstates the matter somewhat in saying that it could have started a important literary rebuttal to the Bond series.
In any event, the novel itself, which occupies 178 pages in this edition, is a fairly entertaining and engrossing caper revolving around the planned assassination of French leader de Gaulle by the OAS. After one ingenious attempt by trained bomb carrying dogs is thwarted in the opening pages, a policeman's widow summons Max Palk, secret agent to help bring down the OAS. Curiously, this ubderspy is an anonymous Englishman office drone, living alone in a dull rooming house on the fringes of London, who, when called forth, transforms rather like a superhero. Next thing you know he's driving powerful sports cars, flying his own plane to his French farm estate, and displaying extreme erudition and Holmesian reasoning and cunning. The never explained disconnect between these two sides of him is a rather jarring and unsatisfactory element of the story, especially if the authors intended him to be the anti-Bond.
The plot hums right along with all the usual reversals and revelations, however its flaws are those of many a potboiler: Max is captures and escapes in entirely unbelievable (albeit comic) way, the damsel in distress is too easily rescued, and the plot foiled with too silly a trick. Still, it's not unenjoyable, and there are some real gemlike moments, such as when Max must correctly identify selections from the Oxford Book of Quotations or be taken to the basement and shot.
In his 60+ page afterword, James Le Sueur describes the novel's publishing history and the legal battle mounted against it by Soustelle, who claimed libel. This gets deeply into France's internal and colonial politics and history, especially the Algerian war and the OAS. While he does an excellent job of synthesizing and explaining, the essay is still likely to be mainly of interest to those who already are somewhat familiar with the issues at hand. However, for those who plow through it, it is a remarkable episode in the collision of literature and politics. For more on the subject, try and find Philip Dine's Images of the Algerian War: French Fiction and Film, 1954-1992.
An Engaging Read!.......2001-04-03
This resurrected 1963 novel by Ben Abro and its accompanying historical essay by James D. Le Sueur are a defintely a great read. The novel is an historical artifact because of its unusual publication history. The authors provide a simultaneously comic and serious plot for the assassination of De Gaulle by Soustelle (both real-life characters). The protagonist is France's secret weapon, one very British and unassuming office worker, Max Palk, a definite contender in the popular Austin Powers and James Bond arenas. This not too savvy spy stops the assassination attempt on De Gaulle before returning to his every day offic job. In his essay, Le Sueur offers a rich analysis of the novel's publication history by sharing real-life courtroom excerpts of Soustelle's libel suit against the authors (Ben Abro) and by describing the geopolitical, intellectual, and historical forces at work during the decolonization era of Algeria and France. I recommend this book both for its creative fictional and non-fictional accounts of an interesting historial period and because it is an entertaining and fun read.
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Charles De Gaulle
Don Cook
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During World War II FDR & Churchill 's most important .......2002-03-28
problem was Vichy, the Free French & what to do with De Gaulle.
Well, no. It was a mere sideshow. But it takes center stage in this long (tape actually) book by Don Cook.
75% of what I now know about De Gaulle & Vichy 1940-45 came from this book. Not only is this a a full life biography but a fine history, most importantly World War II & De Gaulle's part in it & how he became the lone voice of the free French movement. He was the real France & never doubted it. It was his finest hour & if he had never done another thing in his life he would have been great. How he did it is another manner. Aloof, humorless, un-
compromising & always right he was one of the few men that FDR actually disliked as well as distrusted. These poor relations caused FDR & to lesser degree Churchill to cling much to long to Vichy as France. They stupidity refused to recognize De Gaulle's free France when it was obvious to the rest of the world he was the only game in town as far as the French were concerned. He made England & the United States pay for this snub for the next 30 years for he was also an unforgiving man. The
other major coup (& coup is the correct word) of his life was rescuing France from itself In 1958 & creating the Fifth Republic. He wrote a tailor made constitution that made him president for a seven year term. That he could have installed himself as dictator for life is probable. His love for freedom & independence for all men is indisputable. De Gaulle was France, France is De Gaulle. Even now, 30 years later.
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