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The second volume of the biography of de Gaulle, who was declared the first President of the Fifth Republic and who helped to stabilize the country during the Algerian War.

The second volume of the biography of de Gaulle, who was declared the first President of the Fifth Republic and who helped to stabilize the country during the Algerian War.

The first volume of a two-part biography of Charles de Gaulle which provides a record of his life and an evaluation of his leadership and statesmanship. This volume follows his rise to power and closes with the liberation of Paris in 1944.

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We watch as the Society grows into Christendom's most powerful order, and as the Black Legend of a calculating, Machiavellian Jesuitry leads to its abolition in 1773 (it was restored forty years later). We see the great characters of history and culturePascal, Voltaire, Frederick the Great, Catherine the Greatplay their parts. One of Jean Lacouture's most poignant portraits is of the twentieth century's most famous and beloved Jesuit, Pierre T...

Robert Capa (1913-1954) gave the world some of the most moving and memorable images of war ever taken, and redefined journalism for ever.

Savior of his nation in war, bold man of letters, patriot, a statesman who achieved reality for his political vision by the overwhelming force of his will: the personality that emerges in Jean Lacouture's magnificent biography of Charles de Gaulle seems larger than life, a presence of mythic proportions. The story begins with de Gaulle's childhood in Lille and follows him through his heroic experiences in World War I and his swift rise to prom...

The second volume of Jean Lacouture's acclaimed biography of Charles de Gaulle opens with the creation of the Fourth Republic in the aftermath of World War II and with the election of de Gaulle-the voice of Free France, the savior of the nation in war-as president of France. But the internal contradictions of the new constitution soon forced de Gaulle to resign, leaving France to a succession of short-lived and generally ineffective coalition ...