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Patrick Marnham

Door Resistance and Betrayal: The Death and Life of the Greatest Hero of the French Resistance

Categorie
WO II
Boeknummer
#328450-ZA2
Titel
Patrick Marnham
Auteur
Resistance and Betrayal: The Death and Life of the Greatest Hero of the French Resistance
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
New York, NY : Random House
Jaar van uitgave
2000
ISBN10
037550608X
ISBN13
9780375506086
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original boards, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, illustrated with some b/w photographs, 8vo.
Samenvatting
Not long after 2:00 p. m. on June 21, 1943, eight men met in secret at a doctor' s house in Lyon. They represented the warring factions of the French Resistance and had been summoned by General de Gaulle's new envoy, a man most of them knew simply as "Max."

Minutes after the last man entered the house, the Gestapo broke in, led by Klaus Barbie, the infamous "Butcher of Lyon." The fate awaiting Barbie's prisoners was torture, deportation, and death. "Max" was tortured sadistically but never broke: he took his many secrets to his grave. In that moment, the legend of Jean Moulin was born.

Who betrayed Jean Moulin? And who was this enigmatic hero, a man as skilled in deception as he was in acts of heroism? After the war, his ashes were transferred to the Panth&e... (Lees verder)acute;on—France's highest honor—where his memory is revered alongside that of Voltaire and Victor Hugo. But Moulin's story is full of unanswered questions: the truth of his life is far more complicated than the legend conveniently manufactured by de Gaulle.

Resistance and Betrayal tells for the first time in English the epic story of France's greatest war hero, a Schindler-like character of ambiguous motivation. A winner of the Marsh Prize for biography, praised by Graham Greene and Julian Barnes, Patrick Marnham is a brilliant storyteller with a keen appreciation for the complex maze of moral compromises navigated in times of war. Told with the drama and suspense of the best espionage fiction, Resistance and Betrayal brings to life the dark and duplicitous world of the French Resistance and offers a startling conclusion to one of the great unsolved mysteries of the Second World War.
Pagina's
296
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 10,00

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