De Gaulle A Political Biography Author:Alexander Werth Werth traces, in authoritive detail, De Gaulle's complex political career - his ideas, his actions, his strategies: his quarrels in the late twenties and thirties with the military establishment; his rallying of the Resistance in 1940; his wartime struggles to preserve France's position among the Allies; his superbly managed return at the Libera... more »tion; his postwar setbacks; his leadership of right wing RPF party; his retirement from public life; his majestic reassumption of power during the Algerian crisis and collapse of the Fourth Republic in 1958;p his present attainment of international eminence; his difficulties with the Presidential election of 1965-66 and the Ben Barka Affair.« less