Historian: Don't hype de Gaulle

Anniversary prompts rosy recall of French general's speech

PARIS - A leading World War II historian has warned against manipulating history as France this week commemorates 70 years since Charles de Gaulle made his stirring appeal to resist Nazism.

Jean-Pierre Azema, author of more than a dozen works, said he was worried that some truths about France's wartime past were being played down amid the surge of patriotism around de Gaulle's June 18 appeal from London.