- Published: 3 September 2019
- ISBN: 9780141049533
- Imprint: Penguin Press
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 944
- RRP: $26.99
A Certain Idea of France
The Life of Charles de Gaulle

















- Published: 3 September 2019
- ISBN: 9780141049533
- Imprint: Penguin Press
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 944
- RRP: $26.99
Julian Jackson's biography is a worthy monument to this extraordinary figure. He has a good eye for the telling quotation and a magnificent capacity to place de Gaulle, one of the most fascinating subjects in twentieth-century politics, in his historical and political setting. The result is a wonderful history of modern France disguised as the biography of a statesman.
Mark Mazower, New York Review of Books
Scholarship of the highest class ... a truly great book, for after this all other biographies can be cast aside.
Simon Heffer, Sunday Telegraph
More than just another, bigger, biography ... he has the skill and style to maintain a dramatic narrative over nearly 800 pages of text
Robert Tombs, Spectator
A suitably monumental achievement.
Lewis Jones, The Times
Only a great biography could do justice to such a man. This one does it, magnificently.
Noel Malcolm, Daily Telegraph