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Getting to know the General | 14 June 2018

The general may have had ‘a certain idea of France’, but in 1940 it was unclear whether he himself was a royalist, a Christian Democrat or a proto-fascist

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  • A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles de Gaulle

    Julian Jackson

    Allen Lane, pp. 900

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Robert Tombs

Robert Tombs is an emeritus professor in history at the University of Cambridge and the author of This Sovereign Isle: Britain in and out of Europe (Allen Lane, 2021). He also edits the History Reclaimed website

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