War Memoirs: The Call To Honour 1940-1942 Documents.

DE GAULLE, Charles.

$75.00

Item Number: 147933

London: Collins, 1955.

First English edition of this memoir by the legendary French general. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth with gilt titles to the spine. Near good in a very good dust jacket. Translated from the original French by Johnathan Griffin.

French general and statesman Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle led the French Resistance against Nazi Germany in World War II and reestablished democracy in France as chair of the Provisional Government of the French Republic from 1944 to 1946. He later rewrote the Constitution of France and was elected the country's President in 1958.