Mémoires de guerre

The complete edition of the Memoirs of War of General de Gaulle, which was not yet available, was the first to be published in the French version of the Mémoires de War. When he began writing his Memoirs in the aftermath of the Liberation, Charles de Gaulle entrusted an archivist with the task of collecting all the documentation on which he intended to rely to tell his epic at the head of free France until his departure from power in January 1946. "A considerable mass of supporting documents" gathering, according to his own words, more than 100,000 documents, of which 3,000 appeared to him useful to his account, published in annexes to each of the three volumes. Personal notes, speeches, correspondence with his main interlocutors of the time, Winston Churchill or Franklin Roosevelt, messages to his fellow combatants, reports of interviews, it is a material of exceptional richness, occupying two thirds of each volume, which he had insisted on putting in the counterpoint of the Memoirs themselves,