Военная история / De Gaulle

Название: De Gaulle
Автор: Julian Jackson
Издательство: Harvard University Press
Год: 2018
Страниц: 960
Язык: English
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 184 MB

In the early summer of 1940, when France was overrun by German troops, one junior general who had fought in the trenches in Verdun refused to accept defeat. He fled to London, where he took to the radio to address his compatriots back home. “Whatever happens,” he said, “the flame of French resistance must not be extinguished and will not be extinguished.” At that moment, Charles de Gaulle entered history.