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The Rescue of de Gaulle
Maj.-Gen. Sir Edward Spears Bt., K.B.E., C.B., M.C.
talks to JOHN TERRAINE
In June 1940 General Spears was in Bordeaux with Churchill's permission to get out of a collapsing France the charismatic figure of Charles de Gaulle , then under-Minister of War and seemingly the only man in France anxious to continue the war.....

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