Pledge To Destiny: Charles De Gaulle and The Rise of the Free French

By
Robert Smith Thompson

McGraw-Hill Book Company
New York
1974

[14], 282 p.: 20 unpaginated pages containing, 2 maps and 34 illustrations; 23.5 cm. (9.25 inches). Black cloth with red-stamped spine title. Glossy, color illustrated dust jacket. Includes Reference Notes, Bibliography and Index. Red endpapers.
First Edition

"In June 1940 Hitler posed before the Arc de Triomphe in Paris and the terms of French capitulation were drawn. By June 1942, with the battle of the hopelessly outnumbered Free French against Rommel at Bir Hakeim in Libya, the turning point for France had come. Charles de Gaulle, who held his country's future in balance, had made the leap from obscurity to fame, won the grudging respect of the Allies, and forged a nation-in-exile.
The kaleidoscopic history of those fateful two years is told with breath-taking suspense, as event spins on event and the ordinary and heroic participants spring to life: amateurs who created a brilliant intelligence network, military men who acquired legendary names on the burning sands of Africa, defeatist politicians and their determined opponents, black Africans who defied both Vichy and the Germans" [from the dust jacket].

ISBN: 0070643903

Book is in Fine/As New Condition: pages bright, clean, tight, and unmarked.
Dust Jacket is in Very Good Condition: light wear both ends of the spine and corners; small chip top edge of the back section.

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