Twenty years after his death, Charles de Gaulle has seldom been more in the news than this year on the 100th anniversary of his birth and this week on the 50th anniversary of his historic appeal from ...

Julian Jackson, professor of modern French history and head of the School of History at Queen Mary University of London, talks to France 24 about Charles De Gaulle's June 18 1940 radio speech, that is ...

Macron's commemoration of the iconic broadcast from across the English Channel in 1940 comes in the midst of a legislative election campaign in which the far right is in a strong position. After a ...

General de Gaulle famously evoked “a certain idea of France” in his memoirs, but in fact he embodied it. He was the man who, from London, on June 18, 1940, called on the French to refuse the offer of ...

This video looks at the fate of French soldiers during World War II. After France fell in 1940, many were taken as prisoners ...

Andrew Roberts concludes his review of what he acknowledges to be a “remarkable” book, “The War Memoirs of Charles de Gaulle” (Nov. 23), with the suggestion that the reader, when next in Paris, follow ...

Explores the life of General De Gaulle, from the Appeal of June 18, 1940, to his departure from power in 1969. A dive into the military and political career of De Gaulle and an inside portrait of his ...