The Great Prince Died
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
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In the storm-shadowed final days of Leon Trotsky's life in Mexican exile, The Great Prince Died reconstructs, with the visceral immediacy of a first-hand witness, the paranoia, political intrigue, and relentless menace that culminated in one of the twentieth century's most notorious political assassinations. Bernard Wolfe — who served as Trotsky's bodyguard in the late 1930s — channels his singular, intimate knowledge of the revolutionary's inner circle into a fictional narrative of extraordinary authenticity, chronicling the desperate attempts to protect a man whose enemies were as ideologically implacable as they were ruthless. Wolfe's prose crackles with the tension of a man writing from memory and moral reckoning, presenting a portrait of revolutionary idealism corroded by Stalinist treachery and the brutal mechanics of power. Rooted in the tradition of political fiction, the novel sits alongside works by Koestler and Orwell in its unflinching interrogation of utopian promise and totalitarian violence. For readers drawn to the dark corridors where history and literature converge, The Great Prince Died poses a question that lingers long after the final page: what does it mean to die for a revolution that has already betrayed you?
Author: Bernard Wolfe
Format: Paperback
Genre: Historical fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
In the storm-shadowed final days of Leon Trotsky's life in Mexican exile, The Great Prince Died reconstructs, with the visceral immediacy of a first-hand witness, the paranoia, political intrigue, and relentless menace that culminated in one of the twentieth century's most notorious political assassinations. Bernard Wolfe — who served as Trotsky's bodyguard in the late 1930s — channels his singular, intimate knowledge of the revolutionary's inner circle into a fictional narrative of extraordinary authenticity, chronicling the desperate attempts to protect a man whose enemies were as ideologically implacable as they were ruthless. Wolfe's prose crackles with the tension of a man writing from memory and moral reckoning, presenting a portrait of revolutionary idealism corroded by Stalinist treachery and the brutal mechanics of power. Rooted in the tradition of political fiction, the novel sits alongside works by Koestler and Orwell in its unflinching interrogation of utopian promise and totalitarian violence. For readers drawn to the dark corridors where history and literature converge, The Great Prince Died poses a question that lingers long after the final page: what does it mean to die for a revolution that has already betrayed you?