June 18, 1940 by Henri Amouroux

JUNE 18, 1940

A lone man, a microphone, a voice crossing the English Channel. And History shifts.

Henri Amouroux recounts the day everything changed: General de Gaulle's Appeal from the BBC in London, delivered in the silence of defeat and exodus. How does a military defeat turn into hope for liberation? How does an unknown general become the symbol of a France that refuses to surrender?

An essential account of this founding moment of Free France, with the rigor of a historian and the emotion of one who understands what this appeal cost—and what it saved.

KEY POINTS OF THIS BOOK

• General de Gaulle’s Appeal: June 18, 1940, at the BBC in London
• The French collapse: Military defeat and civilian exodus
• Churchill and England: British support for Free France
• The Vichy regime: The French State and collaboration versus Free France
• The first resistance networks: Acts of refusal and organization
• A certain idea of France: The Gaullist vision of the nation in exile

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