Creating Churchill: THORN
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In this episode: one of Winston Churchill’s most prickly and turbulent relationships - with the leader of the Free French during World War Two, and later French President, Charles de Gaulle. Were De Gaulle and Churchill, both men with explosive tempers and a deep pride in their respective national histories which for centuries had been at loggerheads, always bound to clash?
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