On the eve of D-day, the wartime British PM drafted a letter that could have ended De Gaulle's political career.
4 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...
86 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...
179 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...
150 months ago

The unfortunate state of relations between the British prime minister and De Gaulle at the time are clearly elucidated in a cable sent at 11.55...
53 months ago

A treasure trove of letters penned by French wartime leader and former President Charles de Gaulle has been released to the public after 70 years in the dark.
156 months ago

LONDON (AP) — Britain officially leaves the European Union on Jan. 31 after a debilitating political period that has bitterly divided the...
56 months ago

French president Charles de Gaulle's press conferences in the 1960s were early masterpieces of live television.
56 months ago

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

Charles de Gaulle, wartime leader of the Free French and a man whose biography was as interwoven with France's 20th Century history as Churchill's was with...
51 months ago