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...Honour More, by Joyce Gary, wound up a notable trilogy by one of the finest living novelists. Like most of Gary's books, this story of political morality coupled with an astonishing love story failed to get the readers Gary deserves...
...British general leaned out of a taxiing plane on a Bordeaux airfield and hauled aboard a tense, tall Frenchman who was escaping from his defeatist colleagues. Years later, Winston Churchill was to write that the Frenchman, General Charles de Gaulle, "carried with him, in this small aeroplane, the honour of France." In all the world there is probably no one more certain of this than De Gaulle himself. In his story of World War II, The Call to Honour, he plainly sees himself as more savior than soldier and ends on a mystical note: "Poring over the gulf into which...
...deal of justification. When France fell, he was one of the few at the top with the courage and the faith to carry on the fight, and the fact that he is only too glad to trumpet his virtues should not obscure the simple truth. But The Call to Honour shows also why his British and U.S. allies found him so hard to get along with and how his personal sense of destiny could sometimes become a nuisance to Churchill and F.D.R., who were as destiny-conscious as the next fellow. Even Harry Truman once threatened to cut De Gaulle...
...CALL TO HONOUR (319 pp.)-General Charles de Gaulle-Viking...
...suffering from niggling suspicions and intransigeance more than a decade later suggests that De Gaulle either has not consulted the record of the war now available or prefers to keep unbent the ramrod that seems always to have extended from his back through his mind. The Call to Honour carries the De Gaulle story only to mid-1942, but the tone is set, and it is as annoying as it is undoubtedly sincere. Even a hero's worshipers must be embarrassed to hear him refer to his wartime broadcasts as a "priestly duty," and to meet the mock-modest...