Roosevelt agreed when his ambassador to Vichy, Admiral William D. Leahy, described de Gaulle as “an apprentice dictator”. There is a chilling echo in Trump’s description of Volodymyr Zelensky as a ...

More than 50 years after the passing of the hero of Free France, is Europe having a de Gaulle moment? The question echoes in ...

Macron may not yet be bragging about it, but his crusade for strategic autonomy seems at long last to be vindicated ...

Charles de Gaulle’s insistence on French power and autonomy is being cited widely in France; one politician demanded that an ...

According to Julian Jackson’s majestic biography of Charles de Gaulle, A Certain Idea of ... that have guided America since the end of the Cold War. Those presidents were men “of texts ...

When Charles de Gaulle published the first volume of his war memoirs, in 1954, it looked like an acknowledgment that he no longer belonged to the present, but to history. His achievements during the ...

Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt found Charles de Gaulle admirable and infuriating in equal measure, and readers may well feel the same way about his war memoirs, now in a fresh reprint ...

In the early days of the Cold War, former President Charles de Gaulle developed a nuclear deterrent that was designed to be fully independent from the two dominant powers of the time, the Soviet Union ...

Charles de Gaulle ... He dismissed de Gaulle as an irritation with no democratic credentials. His opinion did not change when the US entered the war in December 1941. Indeed, Roosevelt believed ...