Patrick Marnham

Army of the Night

The Life and Death of Jean Moulin, Legend of the French Resistance

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Produktbeschreibung

Discover the truth behind one of the greatest unsolved mysteries of World War II. Who was the enigmatic Jean Moulin, a man as skilled in deception as he was in acts of heroism? The memory of this French Resistance hero, who was betrayed to the Gestapo and tortured by Klaus Barbie, the infamous 'Butcher of Lyon', is revered alongside that of other national icons. But Moulin's story is full of unanswered questions and the truth of his life is far more complicated than the legend. Patrick Marnham, winner of the Marsh Prize for biography, thrillingly tells the epic story of France's greatest war hero, bringing to light the shadowy and often deceitful world of the French Resistance, and offers a shocking conclusion to one of the great unsolved mysteries of World War II.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. März 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 129mm x 195mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 290g
• ISBN-13: 9780755647828
• ISBN-10: 0755647823
• Artikelnr.: 63199786

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction The Legend Caluire Into the Pantheon Part I: Life 1. A Republican Cradle
1789-1899 2. Growth of a Senior Civil Servant
1899-1919 3. A Secret Man
a Complex Man
1919-1934 4. Moulin Rouge
1934-1939 Part II: War 5. The Prefect of Chartres
1939-1940 6. Zones
1940-1941 7. Life on Half-Pay
1940-1941 8. An Envoy to London
1941 Part III: Death 9. Life Underground
1942-1943 10. Vive la Nuit! November 1942-June 1943 11. An Urn and a Pot of Jam
June-July 1943 Part IV: Resurrection 12. The machinery of Insurrection
1943-1944 13. Murdering History
1945-1949 14. The Doctor's Waiting Room
21 June 1943 Postscript Postscript to the New Edition Glossary Chronology Notes Select Bibliography Index