Parallel Lives
The prime minister wanted to brief the general about Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of France that was scheduled for the next day (but which for reasons of weather had to be put back another 24 hours). De Gaulle had been a guest of the British for two weeks short of four years, since his brave flight to England during the fall of France, when he had made his famous broadcast of June 18, 1940, announcing that his country would continue the fight against Hitler. Over those years, relations between the most English of Englishmen and the most French of Frenchmen had seen some extraordinary ups and downs, but that lunch was to witness easily the lowest of the downs.
- ▪The prime minister wanted to brief the general about Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of France that was scheduled for the next day (but which for reasons of weather had to be put back another 24 hours).
- ▪De Gaulle had been a guest of the British for two weeks short of four years, since his brave flight to England during the fall of France, when he had made his famous broadcast of June 18, 1940, announcing that his country would continue the
- ▪Over those years, relations between the most English of Englishmen and the most French of Frenchmen had seen some extraordinary ups and downs, but that lunch was to witness easily the lowest of the downs.
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| Original publisher | Claremont Review of Books |
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| Retrieval time | 2026-07-25T19:18:36.544Z |
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Summer 2026 Book Reviews Parallel Lives by Andrew Roberts Books Reviewed The Last Titans: How Churchill and de Gaulle Saved Their Nations and Transformed the World Buy Email Share Print Download Subscriber Only Subscribe On Sunday, June 4, 1944, Winston Churchill invited Charles de Gaulle, the leader of the Free French, to lunch on his train along a siding at Portsmouth railway station. The prime minister wanted to brief the general about Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of France that was scheduled for the next day (but which for reasons of weather had to be put back another 24 hours).
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