Thursday, August 14, 2014

The Paris Game-Ray Argyle

The Paris Game: Charles de Gaulle, the Liberation of Paris, and the Gamble That Won FranceAmid 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.


This was a very good book. I enjoyed reading the authors take on the liberation of Paris. Mr. Argyle did a wonderful job of keeping the story going and not allowing the read to get bored at any point. Bravo.

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