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Index
Front Cover
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part One: Reaching for The Heights
1 Edge of the Abyss
2 ‘I, General de Gaulle’
Part Two: The Making of a Rebel
3 ‘Un petit Lillois à Paris’
4 War
5 ‘Generation of catastrophes’
6 The Constant Rebel
7 Debacle
Part Three: One Man’s Combat
8 ‘France has not lost the war’
9 Family Time
10 Allies at Odds
11 At the Summit
12 Resistance and Collaboration
13 Blitzkrieg
14 Going Home
15 Liberation
Part Four: From Victory to Defeat
16 Witches’ Brew
17 Foreign Affairs
18 Pétain and Laval
19 ‘Nest of intrigues’
20 ‘That will teach them’
21 ‘Guide for the nation’
22 Triumphs and Tragedies
Part Five: The Road Back
23 Biding His Time
24 ‘I will see’
25 Saving the Ship
26 First in France
Part Six: Republican Monarch
27 The Sovereign, His Court and His People
28 Algeria
29 Raising the Game
30 The Crucible
31 Full House
32 Facing France
33 Tilting at Windmills
Part Seven: Shadows and Night
34 ‘Great things always end badly’
35 The Ides of May
36 Counter-punch
37 Final Act
Source Notes
Bibliography
Glossary of Significant People
Glossary of Abbreviations
Index
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