This innovative account of Charles de Gaulle as a thinker and influential statesmen offers an interpretation that transcends the traditional nationalistic image that prevails in the Anglo-American popular imagination. Centring on the way in which de Gaulle understood nations to be individuals the author frames his argument by rationalising de Gaulle s sense of the international system as an expression of his hyper-sensitivity to the past and the existential movement that flowed as an intellectual undercurrent throughout early and mid-twentieth century France. Graham O Dwyer argues that de...