"Charles de Gaulle's memoirs are more than a work of history: they are a work of art, written with a style and a brooding sense of man's destiny that have had no equal since the eighteenth century. This great literary and historical achievement, begun with the three volumes of his war memoirs, is now completed with the publication of this book - written before General de Gaulle's death in 1970 - in which he tells of his return to power: no longer the head of an embattled government in exile, but called upon at the age of sixty-seven to rescue France from a hopeless and bitter war in Algeria, to protect the faltering Republic from the imminent threat of a military putsch and to reestablish France's ideals and her sense of glory - 'the greatness,' in his won words, 'without which France cannot be France.'"--Book Jacket.