French Text August 1914 ... The outbreak of the Great War throws against each other millions of men against one another in the mud of Flanders or on the heights of Verdun, who are called to write about one of the most tragic epics of the bloody twentieth century. Among the crowds of anonymous soldiers enduring the trials and sacrifices of war, a select few will discover in themselves "the divine coupling of courage and fear," and their calling as leaders. Charles de Gaulle, Winston Churchill, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, George S. Patton, these five men, initiated in the fire of the First...