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

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


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Not long after 2 P.M. on June 21, 1943, nine men met in secret at a doctor's house in Lyons. They were summoned by the head of the French resistance, a man most of them knew simply as "Max." A few minutes later the Gestapo broke in, led by the infamous Klaus Barbie. Over the following week all but two of these men would be tortured and shot. Some broke down, but Max took his many secrets to the grave. In that moment, France's most mythic world-war-two hero -- the legendary Jean Moulin -- was born.Who was this enigmatic hero, a man as skilled in duplicity as he was in acts of heroism? And who betrayed him? A winner of the Marsh Prize for biography, praised by Graham Greene and A. N. Wilson, Marnham is a masterful biographer with a keen eye for the moral compromises navigated in times of war. An utterly compelling story of courage and duplicity, Resistance and Betrayal is a groundbreaking book, "a brilliant mix of political thriller and wartime history" (J. G. Ballard) that solves one of the last great mysteries of the Second World War.

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"Enthralling and intelligent, a masterly exploration of the sinister labyrinth that was wartime France... Marnham wonderfully brings to light the moral confusion of the time. It is a remarkable book, utterly fascinating." -- Alan Massie "The betrayal and murder of Jean Moulin, who was appointed by de Gaulle as leader of the Resistance, is a story which has gripped France for more than half a century. Moulin was captured in Lyons in June 1943 after Gestapo agents burst into a secret meeting he was holding in a doctor's house. He was subjected to days of horrendous torture, but died without talking. Exactly who betrayed him has long been one of the great mysteries of the Second World War... 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." -- Anthony Beevor, author of Stalingrad "Resistance and Betrayal is a gripping account of the last days of the French Resistance hero who was tortured to death by Klaus Barbie. Moulin's ashes now lie in the Pantheon. But who was the real Jean Moulin? Was he a secret Soviet agent, trying to bring about a Communist takeover? Was he betrayed by the other Resistance leaders? Marnham's biography is a brilliant mix of political thriller and wartime history." -- J.G. Ballard, author of Crash


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780375506086
  • Publisher: Random House (NY)
  • Publisher Imprint: Random House (NY)
  • Height: 241 mm
  • No of Pages: 296
  • Spine Width: 29 mm
  • Weight: 576 gr
  • ISBN-10: 037550608X
  • Publisher Date: 19 Mar 2002
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: The Death and Life of the Greatest Hero of the French Resistance
  • Width: 163 mm


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