‘De Gaulle is France. Not a bastard.’ Churchill in the shadow of de Gaulle.
Sixties Room Churchill College, Cambridge, United KingdomFree lecture by Richard Vinen, Professor of History at King’s College London. British history is often seen as being, as David Cannadine once put it, ‘In Churchill’s Shadow.’ It is, therefore, revealing to put Churchill alongside de Gaulle because de Gaulle is the one politician in a democratic country to have enjoyed a stature comparable […]
