Resistance and Betrayal (ePub)
The Death and Life of the Greatest Hero of the French Resistance
(Sprache: Englisch)
"Enthralling and intelligent, a masterly exploration of
the sinister labyrinth that was wartime France . . .
It is a remarkable book, utterly fascinating."
-Allan Massie
Not long after 2:00 p.m. on June 21, 1943, eight men met in secret at a...
the sinister labyrinth that was wartime France . . .
It is a remarkable book, utterly fascinating."
-Allan Massie
Not long after 2:00 p.m. on June 21, 1943, eight men met in secret at a...
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"Enthralling and intelligent, a masterly exploration of
the sinister labyrinth that was wartime France . . .
It is a remarkable book, utterly fascinating."
-Allan Massie
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 Panthéon-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.
NOTE: This edition does not include photographs.
the sinister labyrinth that was wartime France . . .
It is a remarkable book, utterly fascinating."
-Allan Massie
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 Panthéon-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.
NOTE: This edition does not include photographs.
Autoren-Porträt von Patrick Marnham
Patrick Marnham lived for twelve years in Paris and covered three French war crimes trials for the British and American press. His previous books include So Far from God, winner of the Thomas Cook Prize; The Man Who Wasn't Maigret: A Portrait of Georges Simenon, winner of the Marsh Prize for biography and an Edgar Allan Poe Award finalist; and Dreaming with His Eyes Open: A Life of Diego Rivera.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Patrick Marnham
- 2012, 320 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Random House Publishing Group
- ISBN-10: 1588360784
- ISBN-13: 9781588360786
- Erscheinungsdatum: 05.09.2012
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