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The Paris Game
Ray Argyle
其他書名
Charles de Gaulle, the Liberation of Paris, and the Gamble that Won France
出版Dundurn, 2014-08-02
主題Biography & Autobiography / Presidents & Heads of StateHistory / Military / World War IIHistory / Europe / France
ISBN14597228769781459722873
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=PdbXAQAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋At a crucial moment in the Second World War, an obscure French general reaches a fateful personal decision: to fight on alone after his government’s flight from Paris and its capitulation to Nazi Germany.
 Amid the ravages of a world war, three men — a general, a president, and a prime minister — are locked in a rivalry that threatens their partnership and puts the world’s most celebrated city at risk of destruction before it can be liberated. This is the setting of The Paris Game, a dramatic recounting of how an obscure French general under sentence of death by his government launches on the most enormous gamble of his life: to fight on alone after his country’s capitulation to Nazi Germany. In a game of intrigue and double-dealing, Charles de Gaulle must struggle to retain the loyalty of Winston Churchill against the unforgiving opposition of Franklin Roosevelt and the traitorous manoeuvring of a collaborationist Vichy France. How he succeeds in restoring the honour of France and securing its place as a world power is the stuff of raw history, both stirring and engrossing.