"The hero of the story is the brother of the hero of the novel." André Malraux. De Gaulle is alone. He is forty-nine years old. On 18 June 1940, he launches an appeal for resistance. But who hears it? France is defeated, occupied. She listens to the old chief: Pétain. For De Gaulle, exiled in London, unknown, condemned to death by Vichy, it is "the...