Charles de Gaulle A Biography by Don cook

Category: Military, Misc. Non-fiction
Language: EnglishKeywords: Non-fiction Biography History 20th Century WWII 5th Rep
Written by Don Cook
Read by Frederick Davidson
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged
Charles de Gaulle
Written by: Don Cook
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
Length: 22 hrs and 49 mins
Audiobook
Release Date:04-09-09
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Publisher’s Summary
This magnificent volume by veteran European correspondent Don Cook is the first major biography of de Gaulle written by an American from an American perspective. Rich with new anecdotal material, it offers fresh evaluations and sheds new light on Europe’s most controversial and enigmatic general, politician, and statesman.
Arrogant, haughty, single-minded in war, politics, and his personal life, Charles de Gaulle ranks in many ways as the most powerful personality of an epoch blessed (and cursed) with powerful men. Hitler, Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin, Truman, Kennedy, and Khrushchev: all locked horns with de Gaulle, and all eventually bowed to his wishes.
This exciting biography takes full measure of the man and full measure of his times, when great soldiers and statesmen fought center stage and the fate of the world hung in the balance.
©1983 Don Cook; (P)1997 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
What the Critics Say
“No one has done a better job in painting the real de Gaulle…an outstanding biography.” (New York Times)
“De Gaulle’s career may have been an ordeal for his contemporaries, but in Cook’s hands it has become a delight for readers.” (Time)


Charles de Gaulle

Written by: Don Cook
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
Length: 22 hrs and 49 mins
Audiobook
Release Date:04-09-09
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Publisher’s Summary

This magnificent volume by veteran European correspondent Don Cook is the first major biography of de Gaulle written by an American from an American perspective. Rich with new anecdotal material, it offers fresh evaluations and sheds new light on Europe’s most controversial and enigmatic general, politician, and statesman.
Arrogant, haughty, single-minded in war, politics, and his personal life, Charles de Gaulle ranks in many ways as the most powerful personality of an epoch blessed (and cursed) with powerful men. Hitler, Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin, Truman, Kennedy, and Khrushchev: all locked horns with de Gaulle, and all eventually bowed to his wishes.

This exciting biography takes full measure of the man and full measure of his times, when great soldiers and statesmen fought center stage and the fate of the world hung in the balance.

©1983 Don Cook; (P)1997 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

What the Critics Say

“No one has done a better job in painting the real de Gaulle…an outstanding biography.” (New York Times)
“De Gaulle’s career may have been an ordeal for his contemporaries, but in Cook’s hands it has become a delight for readers.” (Time)