The General's Niece: The Little-Known de Gaulle Who Fought to Free Occupied France

"My dear Uncle Charles," twenty-two-year-old Genevieve de Gaulle wrote on May 6, 1943. "Maybe you have already heard about the different events affecting the family." The general's brother Pierre had been taken by the Gestapo; his brother Xavier, Genevieve's father, had escaped to Switzerland. Genevieve asked her uncle where she could be most useful-France? England? A French territory? When no response came immediately, she decided to stay in France to help carry out his call to resist the ...