Biography & Autobiography Presidents & Heads Of State
The Paris Game
Charles de Gaulle, the Liberation of Paris, and the Gamble that Won France
- Publisher
- Dundurn Press
- Initial publish date
- Aug 2014
- Category
- Presidents & Heads of State, World War II, France
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781459722866
- Publish Date
- Aug 2014
- List Price
- $29.99
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781459722880
- Publish Date
- Aug 2014
- List Price
- $9.99
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Description
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.
About the authors
Ray Argyle is a journalist, the author of several books of biography and political history, and the recipient of a Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Medal for contributions to Canadian life. During his long association with France, he has spent many years tracking the political careers of Charles de Gaulle and his successors. He lives in Kingston, Ontario.
Editorial Reviews
It is tempting to say that Ray Argyle’s well-researched, fascinating book reads like a novel, but that would be wrong. No novelist could invent such a protagonist.
Literary Review of Canada
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