DE GAULLE MON PÈRE by Philippe de GAULLE interviews with Michel Tauriac – Volume 1

DE GAULLE MON PÈRE by Philippe de GAULLE interviews with Michel Tauriac – Volume 1 - Éditions Le Grand Livre du Mois (15 rue des Sablons, Paris) - Edition exclusively reserved for members of the 'Le Grand Livre du Mois' Club - Made with the authorization of Plon editions - 2003 - 568 pages - Black and white photographic illustrations – Hardback cover – With chronologies of General de Gaulle’s life – Index of contemporary characters. If there is a statesman who has inspired biographers, it is Charles de Gaulle. But who can know him better than his own son, this privileged witness who lived through all the stages of his epic? Who can describe him better in the family, with all the doors of the house closed, surrounded by his children and grandchildren, and lovingly watched over by his wife, listening to him when he speaks and does not want to be heard, translating the slightest inflection of his voice and his silences? Who can reach his heart in the most secret moments, share his confidences on everything, both about his private life and history, about his power struggles with Churchill and Roosevelt, about his dealings with Pétain or Giraud? If Philippe de Gaulle has accepted for the first time to open up so deeply to the incisive questions of Michel Tauriac, it is not only to answer the questions that we continue to ask about the author of his days, but also to destroy the fabrications and abusive interpretations, set the record straight, clarify the mysteries that still hover over different affairs - such as the assassination of Darlan and the General's coup against the Allies to liberate Paris, preserve Strasbourg and cross the Rhine. More than a collection of interviews, this book is an unprecedented testimony that reads like a novel.