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A young Hungarian officer says NO. No to the communist regime of terror that followed the Red Army's invasion. No to the subjugation of his country. No to the silence of the West. Lajos Marton grows up in the shadow of war and dictatorship. As an officer in the Hungarian Air Force, he gains access to top-secret information - and makes a momentous decision: he hands over his reports to the American legation out of patriotism and belief in the free world. Under the code name ""Bjarni 1050,"" he becomes one of the first voluntary informants of the Cold War. After the Hungarian uprising of 1956, he lives in exile in France. There he finds himself caught up in the turmoil of the postwar period, the political tensions surrounding Algeria - and ultimately in the milieu of the Petit-Clamart commando. ""Operation Charlotte Corday"" becomes the dramatic climax of his life. But this is more than the story of an attack. It is the story of a man caught between two worlds: East and West, loyalty and betrayal, hope and bitter disappointment. For decades, Marton fought for recognition of his services to NATO - in vain, confronted by bureaucratic silence. Relentless, personal, and politically explosive, De Gaulle must be killed! tells the life story of a man who was convinced he was on the right side of history-and risked everything for it. A gripping account of the Cold War, exile, espionage, and the tragedy of political conviction in the twentieth century.

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