On the eve of D-day, the wartime British PM drafted a letter that could have ended De Gaulle's political career.
6 months ago

Churchill and De Gaulle were kept in the dark about a top secret British military plan to arm Vichy France, recently discovered documents...
152 months ago

Some 313 letters written by General Charles de Gaulle in the first years of the Second World War reveal an “embattled, lonely and often...
158 months ago

On June 28, 1940, General Charles de Gaulle, having set up headquarters in England upon the establishment of a puppet government in his native France, is...
180 months ago

Shortly after noon, the door to the villa opened, and Churchill, de Gaulle, and Giraud walked out, while Roosevelt was carried to his chair.
82 months ago

In exile during the Nazi occupation of France, the great general spent three years in the British capital, a period that defined his sense...
75 months ago

On June 16, 1940, with Nazi Germany on the brink of crushing France, British prime minister Winston Churchill and French undersecretary of defense Charles de...
87 months ago

De Gaulle did limited good for the American empire, but immense good for the cause of republican government.
125 months ago

France was reborn through a lone, tall, austere, strange figure named Charles de Gaulle. De Gaulle loved his nation, having been raised in a Catholic home.
59 months ago

Churchill plotted to oust General de Gaulle as leader of the Free French forces during the second world war, describing him as "a bitter foe...
298 months ago