The Death Of Jean Moulin - Softcover

Marnham, Patrick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0712665846 ISBN 13: 9780712665841

Verlag: Pimlico, 2001

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"A remarkable achievement that evokes the whole tragedy of wartime France." -"Independent" "First-rate history that reads like a thriller." -"Literary Review"

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According to legend Jean Moulin was General de Gaulle's emissary to the resistance movements in occupied France and became the political head of the Resistance in 1943. But despite the fact that he has entered French history as one of the great heroes of the Second World War, surprisingly little is known about him. He was captured in Lyons and tortured by the Gestapo and is thought to have died a few days later without talking. Ever since his disappearance arguments have raged in France as to whether or not he was betrayed by other Resistance leaders. Why should they have been suspected of doing that? Was Jean Moulin just a brave civil servant who volunteered to become a secret agent? Or was he, as some believe, a French Philby, working to promote a Communist insurrection in France? But in order to find out who he was, one must first know who killed him.In this fascinating book, Patrick Marnham traces the childhood and early career of Jean Moulin and places him in the context of French political life in the 1930s, when Left and Right fought violent battles in the streets of Paris. He searches for the key to Jean Moulin's political convictions and examines the way in which a country can choose as a symbol of national unity a mysterious figure who may have been working to a private agenda.

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• Verlag: Pimlico
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0712665846
• ISBN 13: 9780712665841
• Einband: Paperback
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304