At the end of World War I, during the armistice proceedings in Germany and at the Peace Conference after the war, French General Maxime Weygand served as chief aid to Marshal Foch. Called out of retirement in the mid - 1930s, Weygand again served his country during World War II. This is his biography.

French archival sources, available oral testimony and Weygands private papers, particularly his detailed World War I diary, contribute to a fascinating biography of one of World War IIs unsung heroes.