Army of the Night: The Life and Death of Jean Moulin, Legend of the French Resistance
Autor Patrick Marnhamen Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 mar 2022
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780755647828
ISBN-10: 0755647823
Pagini: 320
Ilustrații: 31 bw in 8pp plates
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 31 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Tauris Parke
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0755647823
Pagini: 320
Ilustrații: 31 bw in 8pp plates
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 31 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Tauris Parke
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
Patrick Marnham is a biographer and travel writer. He began his career as a reporter on Private Eye and has written for many newspapers including The Times, the Guardian, The New York Review of Books and Libération and has been literary editor of the Spectator and the first Paris correspondent of the Independent. His books have won the Thomas Cook Travel Book Prize and the Marsh Biography Award and he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He lived in Paris for twelve years and now lives in Oxfordshire.
Cuprins
IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroductionThe LegendCaluireInto the PantheonPart I: Life1. A Republican Cradle, 1789-18992. Growth of a Senior Civil Servant, 1899-19193. A Secret Man, a Complex Man, 1919-19344. Moulin Rouge, 1934-1939Part II: War5. The Prefect of Chartres, 1939-19406. Zones, 1940-19417. Life on Half-Pay, 1940-19418. An Envoy to London, 1941Part III: Death9. Life Underground, 1942-194310. Vive la Nuit! November 1942-June 194311. An Urn and a Pot of Jam, June-July 1943Part IV: Resurrection12. The machinery of Insurrection, 1943-194413. Murdering History, 1945-194914. The Doctor's Waiting Room, 21 June 1943PostscriptPostscript to the New EditionGlossaryChronologyNotesSelect BibliographyIndex
Recenzii
Secret agents do not leave reliable accounts of their activities, nor do doubleand triple-agents act from simple motives. The lucidity comes, like the solution of a good detective story, towards the end of a tangled tale full of unusual suspects.
A brilliantly sustained, atmospheric and often tensely thrilling narrative [. . .] This book is a remarkable achievement that evokes the whole tragedy of wartime France.
This is first-rate history that reads like a thriller and keeps the reader engrossed to the very end.
A gripping account of the last days of the French Resistance hero who was tortured to death by Klaus Barbie. Marnham's biography is a brilliant mix of political thriller and wartime history.
Enthralling and intelligent, a masterly exploration of the sinister labyrinth that was wartime France [...] It is a remarkable book, utterly fascinating.
... Patrick Marnham is very good on French self-deception: a moral self-deception which began with Vichy for psychological reasons and continued under de Gaulle. His book is as gripping as a detective story.
If you are interested in France, the real France, or if you are interested in the Second World War, or if you are interested in courage, real courage, and how it can rise to meet the most severe test imaginable, then I believe you ought to make it your business to read Patrick Marnham's extraordinary book.'
A brilliantly sustained, atmospheric and often tensely thrilling narrative [. . .] This book is a remarkable achievement that evokes the whole tragedy of wartime France.
This is first-rate history that reads like a thriller and keeps the reader engrossed to the very end.
A gripping account of the last days of the French Resistance hero who was tortured to death by Klaus Barbie. Marnham's biography is a brilliant mix of political thriller and wartime history.
Enthralling and intelligent, a masterly exploration of the sinister labyrinth that was wartime France [...] It is a remarkable book, utterly fascinating.
... Patrick Marnham is very good on French self-deception: a moral self-deception which began with Vichy for psychological reasons and continued under de Gaulle. His book is as gripping as a detective story.
If you are interested in France, the real France, or if you are interested in the Second World War, or if you are interested in courage, real courage, and how it can rise to meet the most severe test imaginable, then I believe you ought to make it your business to read Patrick Marnham's extraordinary book.'