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'De Gaulle' paints an excellently clear portrait of a 20th-century myth

Historian Julian Jackson's massive one-volume of biography of the semi-legendary French general and leader Charles de Gaulle appeared to showers of acclaim in the UK under the wholly superior title of "A Certain Idea of France" (a famous phrase from the opening of de Gaulle's memoirs). It appears this month in the US from Harvard University Press as De Gaullea great grey brick of a book that looks as inscrutably intimidating as its subject.

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