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    The Paris Game: Charles de Gaulle, the Liberation of Paris, and the Gamble that Won France
    The Paris Game: Charles de Gaulle, the Liberation of Paris, and the Gamble that Won France
    The Paris Game: Charles de Gaulle, the Liberation of Paris, and the Gamble that Won France
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    The Paris Game: Charles de Gaulle, the Liberation of Paris, and the Gamble that Won France

    By Ray Argyle and Maurice Vaïsse

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    At a crucial moment in the Second World War, an obscure French general reaches a fateful personal decision: to fight on alone after his government’s flight from Paris and its capitulation to Nazi Germany.
    Amid the ravages of a world war, three men — a general, a president, and a prime minister — are locked in a rivalry that threatens their partnership and puts the world’s most celebrated city at risk of destruction before it can be liberated. This is the setting of The Paris Game, a dramatic recounting of how an obscure French general under sentence of death by his government launches on the most enormous gamble of his life: to fight on alone after his country’s capitulation to Nazi Germany. In a game of intrigue and double-dealing, Charles de Gaulle must struggle to retain the loyalty of Winston Churchill against the unforgiving opposition of Franklin Roosevelt and the traitorous manoeuvring of a collaborationist Vichy France. How he succeeds in restoring the honour of France and securing its place as a world power is the stuff of raw history, both stirring and engrossing.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDundurn
    Release dateAug 2, 2014
    ISBN9781459722880
    The Paris Game: Charles de Gaulle, the Liberation of Paris, and the Gamble that Won France
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    Ray Argyle

    Ray Argyle is a journalist, the author of several books of biography and political history, and the recipient of a Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Medal for contributions to Canadian life. During his long association with France, he has spent many years tracking the political careers of Charles de Gaulle and his successors. He lives in Kingston, Ontario.

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