The Deadlock between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Charles de Gaulle
Feb 2025 · Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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This book explores the contentious wartime relationship between Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) and Charles de Gaulle. Despite mutual dislike, both leaders manipulated each other to defeat Hitler, liberate France, and shape post-WWII Europe. De Gaulle’s determination to prove himself as France’s saviour, coupled with his prima donna attitude, led FDR to keep him at arm’s length and out of key Allied plans. Frustrated by FDR’s refusal to treat him as an equal to Churchill, de Gaulle, who lacked official leadership of France, still managed to gain authority as the leader of Free France. Their relationship, characterized by four years of distrust and animosity, played a critical role in the Allies' path to victory. The full story of their complex interactions, drawn from diaries, interviews, and reminiscences, has not been publicly told until now.
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Stanley Weintraub (1929-2019) was Professor and Evan Pugh Professor (1956-2000) and Director of the Institute for the Arts & Humanistic Studies at the Pennsylvania State University, USA (1970-1990). He was a distinguished military historian, eminent biographer, Victorian era specialist, and one of the world’s foremost authorities on George Bernard Shaw. He served as Second Lieutenant and was a Bronze Star recipient during the Korean War (1949-1952); those experiences led him to focus his writing on military history in the latter part of his career. His memoir A Writing Life: Revisiting the Past was published in 2020.
David A. Weintraub is Director emeritus of the Communication of Science, Engineering and Technology and Professor emeritus of Astronomy at Vanderbilt University, USA. His books include Is Pluto a Planet?; How Old is the Universe?; Religions and Extraterrestrial Life: How Will We Deal With It?; Life on Mars: What to Know Before We Go; and The Sky is for Everyone: Women Astronomers in Their Own Words (with Virginia Trimble). He is creator and lead editor of a series of scientific autobiographies for children, the Who Me? books.
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