While emptying the family home in Manchiyat el-Bakri, in Cairo, Hoda Nasser found her father’s archives, which no one had touched since his brutal death on September 28, 1970. Interweaving her memories with these documents, she recounts the he astonishing destiny of the child from the slums of Alexandria who became, in 1956, the president of a liberated Egypt after seventy years of British domination. Along the way, Hoda Nasser takes the reader behind the scenes of great History seen by one of the major leaders of the Third World and non-alignment, bearer of a project for the liberation of peoples which then met with an immense echo throughout the planet. Nasser’s notes, drafts and notebooks are like snapshots of a political life. Under his pen, we rub shoulders with the personalities of the time, particularly American and Soviet; we glimpse the intrigues at play, such as the mysteries of the Yemeni question, in which Saudi Arabia was already involved, or the precariousness of Kuwait, which Iraq was trying to absorb at that time. We can also see Nasser’s hopes for the Palestinians, but his concerns about them are commensurate with the trauma that the Franco-Anglo-Israeli aggression of 1956 constituted for him. Finally, in the appendix, we will discover his Journal of war in Palestine, in 1948.