European novels – Seeking harmony on the hillsides
Today, President Sarkozy arrives in London to celebrate the legendary appel de Londres of 18 June 1940: the broadcast with which the self-exiled General de Gaulle, in front of a BBC microphone, began to rally his compatriots to Resistance in the face of Nazi occupation. Three days earlier, however, Winston Churchill himself had authorised a startling secret proposal to his beleagured …
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