Books by Edward Spears
Assignment to Catastrophe
by Edward Spears
Edward Spears was a friend of Churchill’s. He witnessed the whole of the collapse of France, and of the French government. Some people say it’s a somewhat coloured account, but it’s grand politics, it’s debacle, it’s disaster.
Interviews where books by Edward Spears were recommended
The best books on The French Resistance, recommended by Jonathan Fenby
The historian and author chooses five books on de Gaulle and the Resistance. He says the British tried to veto de Gaulle’s famous 1940 speech from London calling on the French to stand up to German occupation
