De Gaulle and Churchill have a message for Sarkozy and Cameron | Timothy Garton Ash

Two great leaders, and mythmakers, set France and Britain on divergent trajectories. This 18 June, it's time to reconnect

In London tomorrow, Nicolas Sarkozy and David Cameron will join French and British veterans to celebrate the 70th anniversary of Charles de Gaulle's historic radio appeal to the French to go on fighting against Hitler. On the same day that De Gaulle broadcast his message from London on the BBC, 18 June 1940, Winston Churchill delivered his "finest hour" speech to the House ...