Two dear enemies, Winston Churchill and Charles de Gaulle, walked together down the Champs Elysées to the cheering of the crowds. A dream had come true.
‘Churchill is a gangster,’ de Gaulle had said just a few months earlier. And Churchill had given ...
Two dear enemies, Winston Churchill and Charles de Gaulle, walked together down the Champs Elysées to the cheering of the crowds. A dream had come true.
‘Churchill is a gangster,’ de Gaulle had said just a few months earlier. And Churchill had given the order for the impossible general to be imprisoned.
After the capitulation of France, General de Gaulle had come to London with two empty hands and been received by Prime Minister Churchill with open arms. Both of them were convinced that the war must go on whatever the cost, and that Hitler must be defeated. A friendship grew up between them that was stormy yet which survived, even though French and British interests were often opposed, primarily in the Middle East.
This is the story of the two dear enemies’ joint struggle during the war 1940-45. It is a story told with a light touch by the author of several books about de Gaulle and the France he experienced during 65 years.