{"product_id":"2026200012040-secondhand-no-laurels-for-de-gaulle","title":"No Laurels For De Gaulle","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage\u003cbr\u003ePages: Tanning and foxing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the shadow of one of history's most towering and controversial figures, Robert Mengin's No Laurels for de Gaulle presents a sharp, unflinching counter-narrative to the triumphant myth of Charles de Gaulle — the man who claimed the soul of Free France. Mengin, a Frenchman who lived through the turbulent years of World War II and its aftermath, chronicles his own experience of the war and the French Resistance, arguing with passionate conviction that de Gaulle's rise to power was built as much on political cunning and personal ambition as on genuine patriotism. Translated from the French by Jay Allen, the book details the internal fractures within the Free French movement and the sidelining of those who dared to question de Gaulle's singular vision of France's liberation.\n\nA rare and courageous act of dissent in a political culture that treated de Gaulle as sacrosanct, this work stands as a vital document of mid-twentieth-century European history. Mengin's prose is direct and unsparing, driven by the moral urgency of a witness who refuses to let myth eclipse truth. Published by the distinguished New York house Farrar, Straus and Giroux, the book found an international audience willing to interrogate the carefully constructed legend of the General — and leaves the reader asking whether any liberation can truly be called heroic when it is shadowed by the hunger for power.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49130917724379,"sku":"2026200012040-SECONDHAND","price":20.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/84be94c4-d0c0-47c2-ae86-a7c61f24aed1.png?v=1786591926","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200012040-secondhand-no-laurels-for-de-gaulle","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}