To an extent which nobody but the man himself could have believed possible, General De Gaulle imposed his vision upon a country - and even perhaps upon a continent.
By the time Aidan Crawley published this classic biography of his subject, De Gaulle had been a legend for almost thirty years, and around him there had accumulated a literature of staggering size. Very few of these dealt with the entirety of his career until Crawley’s major work.
