Episode 49 - Two Broadcasts
Episode notes
In this episode of History Date Night Justin and Jennie finally give one of the war’s most important figures the introduction he deserves and cover the 18th of June 1940. The day a relatively junior French brigadier general named Charles de Gaulle stepped to a BBC microphone and delivered the Appeal of 18th June radio address.
Because the day itself has fewer events than the dramatic single day episodes covered before, Justin and Jennie tell de Gaulle’s story properly for the first time: the devout Catholic from Lille, the wounded and captured officer of Verdun, the interwar prophet of armoured warfare whom almost no one in the French high command wanted to hear, the man who nearly resigned rather than accept defeat, and the officer who risked arrest for desertion by flying to London with nothing but conviction.
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