François Kersaudy OBE, FRSL, (born 1948) is a French historian and professor of English economic terminology at the

University of Paris , image_name = Coat of arms of the University of Paris.svg , image_size = 150px , caption = Coat of Arms , latin_name = Universitas magistrorum et scholarium Parisiensis , motto = ''Hic et ubique terrarum'' (Latin) , mottoeng = Here and a ...

. He is a specialist on the works of

Winston Churchill Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (30 November 187424 January 1965) was a British statesman, soldier, and writer who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom twice, from 1940 to 1945 during the Second World War, and again from ...

. Among his books are '' Churchill and De Gaulle'' (Collins, 1981), ''Stratèges et Norvège 1940, les Jeux de la Guerre et du Hasard'' which treated the Norwegian Campaign in 1940, and ''Vi stoler på England'' (in Norwegian) from 1993. His book ''Winston Churchill : Le pouvoir de l'imagination'' was awarded the ''Grand prix d’histoire de la Société des gens de lettres de France'', and the ''Grand prix de la biographie politique'' in 2009. Author of French biographies of Mountbatten, Goering and MacArthur. Retranslated Churchill's wartime memoirs into French (Paris, Tallandier, 2009 and 2010) His work published in English includes "Churchill and De Gaulle" and ''Norway, 1940''.Kersaudy, François (1981 and 1990, both London: HarperCollins.) Nine French Literary prizes, Yorkshire Post Best First Work award 1981, OBE.

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1948 births Living people Academic staff of the University of Paris Historians of World War II 20th-century French historians 21st-century French historians French male writers {{France-academic-bio-stub