Gossip From The Forest (SIGNED)
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 1st uk ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Tanning and foxing , price clipped
Markings: Signed
Condition remarks: Boards - good. Binding - tight. Text - light foxing on book block, otherwise clean text.
Set against the bleak, fog-shrouded forests of the Franco-German border in November 1918, this gripping work of historical fiction chronicles the tense armistice negotiations that brought the First World War to a close. Thomas Keneally's Gossip From The Forest reconstructs the fraught eleven days during which German and Allied delegations, led by Matthias Erzberger and Marshal Ferdinand Foch respectively, faced each other in a railway carriage to hammer out the terms that would silence the guns of the Great War. The novel presents both sides with remarkable psychological depth, portraying exhausted, morally conflicted men navigating the weight of history under impossible pressure. Keneally's prose is measured and atmospheric, suffused with a quiet dread that mirrors the dying gasps of an era, and he illustrates how the seeds of future catastrophe were sown in the very moment of supposed peace. A masterwork of literary historical fiction, Gossip From The Forest stands as a profound meditation on power, tragedy, and the human cost of political failure.
Author: Thomas Keneally
Format: Hardback
Published: 1975, Collins
Genre: Historical fiction
Edition: 1st uk ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Tanning and foxing , price clipped
Markings: Signed
Condition remarks: Boards - good. Binding - tight. Text - light foxing on book block, otherwise clean text.
Set against the bleak, fog-shrouded forests of the Franco-German border in November 1918, this gripping work of historical fiction chronicles the tense armistice negotiations that brought the First World War to a close. Thomas Keneally's Gossip From The Forest reconstructs the fraught eleven days during which German and Allied delegations, led by Matthias Erzberger and Marshal Ferdinand Foch respectively, faced each other in a railway carriage to hammer out the terms that would silence the guns of the Great War. The novel presents both sides with remarkable psychological depth, portraying exhausted, morally conflicted men navigating the weight of history under impossible pressure. Keneally's prose is measured and atmospheric, suffused with a quiet dread that mirrors the dying gasps of an era, and he illustrates how the seeds of future catastrophe were sown in the very moment of supposed peace. A masterwork of literary historical fiction, Gossip From The Forest stands as a profound meditation on power, tragedy, and the human cost of political failure.