even though the then relatively unknown lieutenant colonel charles de gaulle published a controversial book in 1934, advocating just the tactics that the germans would use to defeat poland and france, the blitzkrieg. de gaulle's book sold less than 1000 copies in france but it sold many, many, times that number in germany where it was read aloud to adolf hitler and became the bible of the officers who would command the german armored forces. as for anti-tank weapons, france's venerable 85-millimeter field gun, it had been adopted in 1897, with its flat trajectory and potential for rapid fire, was more than capable of destroying any tank that the german army then possessed when fired over open sites, but little thought had been given to using it in that role. all the, although the french army had more than 4500 of the beloved guns or 75s, they were used for conventional infantry support instead. the rapid german success against france is usually attributed to superior mechanization but this is a misleading picture. german artillery was horse-drawn in 1940, as it had been in 1914, and ge

charles de gaulle's statement from 1965 seems more prescient than ever. they are there to special moment. we have the u.s. down and out with an erratic president -- at least from china's perspective, seen as very erratic, not perhaps on china. on a lot of issues, especially trade -- you have the u.k. bogged down in brexit. angela merkel in germany struggling to reform a coalition. we have spain torn up over catalonia. here is france once again. situations, macron is the go-to guy in europe because everyone else is absent without leave. they are a well, if you will. this is an opportunity for these to do powers with a long-standing relationship to see eye to eye. they want to talk about the anti-terror fight, climate change, obviously those very troublesome trade issues. there are lots of things they will not see eye to eye on, but at least they have what china seas, what macron sees as a special relationship. macron's book has just been published in mandarin so chinese can read it. he is pretty high and chinese public opinion. the keyou mentioned issues d

the goal is to meet your end bitter indian posture that refers of course to the late president charles de gaulle and also a day off and this posture is based on the more independence research. implications of great powers not constantly to our i don't think allies and much whole addressed again this particular message during the speech and which is very interesting so he called china for a bigger involvement in world affairs but also a bigger cotner ship on will issues such as terrorism such as syria such as north korea such as of course also global warming graham we've got two leaders hit with very big ambitions with the u.s. and retrieve it says tell me just mention is global dominance on their minds. clearly i mean global dominance is. a theme that it's const continually discussed in light of the shake up that we've seen in global politics over the last twelve months in the least and whoever's going to step up to the fore is no one to come up with in their interim and that will benefit not just themselves by the international community taking into account how highly integrated the global econ

sending your gold over there member that we had to send navy ships full of gold to france when charles de gaulle asked for back here you see the balance of trade since then it's just gone this is us getting free goods from the rest of the world we just have to pay dollars is as worse than any of the worst of the old coins. i would say use the word that is often used boxes about what they call oil coins but it's on mentionable on air that's correct is it appropriate for a family show like this one to call the dollar by its rightful name the ha. which is a little known dialect on a faraway planet which means kaka actually you know. it comes from the latin prefix of ca which we carry forward to this day and we so you know we've been talking about this this is something that we've been highlighting on report since two thousand and nine is the absence of a gold standard has allowed for the explosion of debt whether or not that makes people more free i don't think so i think having all this debt probably makes you less free i think this is why you see the millennium as they younger generation people p

de gaulle and giraud together. there were two factions. one faction wanted henri giraud and another faction was headed up by charles de gaulle. degaulle had not been told about the invasion. he did not know about it. even though they were invading another french colony. churchill said it was better to withhold. at the conference they would try to orchestrate what they would call a shotgun wedding, and they actually used those terms, are between giaud and degaulle -- giraud and degaulle to put the french resistance movement together and that did not go so well. this meeting would also be followed by the announcement the allies were going to pursue unconditional surrender. when people talk about because of conference, usually the idea that roosevelt announces during the press conference the allies are going to do unconditional surrender. it was not planned. in fact, giraud was so shocked by it, his head went around like, you said what? it was suggested that they put out a press release. roosevelt, however, just blurted it out. churchill wanted to preserve the appearance of unity between the brits in the americans, decided not t