William Moore

Free France's Lion (eBook, ePUB)

The Life of Philippe Leclerc, de Gaulle's Greatest General

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"A fine biography of Leclerc, who played almost as important a part as de Gaulle himself in restoring French pride in the Second World War" (Antony Beevor, international bestselling author of D-Day). From the fall of France until 1943, Philippe Leclerc dovetailed his operations with the British effort in North Africa, establishing himself as a dynamic combat leader in the battles against Rommel. But once the conflict shifted to European soil, he became even more prominent as the commander of the 2nd French Armored Division-the famous 2e DB). For the next two years, he was under the operational control of either Patton's Third Army, as in the Normandy breakout, Hodges' First Army, at the Westwall, or Patch's Seventh Army in the south. His career not only includes the liberation of Paris, for which he is most famous, but the retaking of Strasbourg and the reduction of the Colmar Pocket. Helping to spearhead the advance into Germany itself, Leclerc's armor comprised a rock upon which American units could rely, and its waving the tricolor during the Allied counter-invasion went far toward retrieving French prestige in the war. Leclerc is one of very few Frenchmen of whom it can be said that he never stopped fighting to regain France's freedom, from the debacle of 1940 right through to the end. The "first full-scale biography in English of the 'liberator of Paris,'" Free France's Lion will make fascinating reading for any serious student of the full scope of World War II (Publishers Weekly).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Casemate
• Seitenzahl: 528
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. November 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781612000800
• Artikelnr.: 38333063

Autorenporträt

Of Anglo-Dutch descent, William Mortimer-Moore was born in 1958 and educated at Dean Close School and University College, Cardiff. He has always wanted to write and, after a detour involving advertising copywriting, property, building and a couple of unpublished novels, William decided to address his love of history and France by writing this biography of Leclerc. He lives in Cheltenham in the United Kingdom where he is presently writing a book about Paris during 1944.