Gossip From The Forest (SIGNED)
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good , price clipped
Markings: Signed
Condition remarks: DJ - minor glue residue on rear panel.
A richly imagined work of historical fiction, Gossip From The Forest chronicles the tense, fog-shrouded negotiations that took place in a railway carriage in the Forest of Compiègne in November 1918, where a small group of exhausted men hammered out the Armistice that ended the First World War. Thomas Keneally presents the encounter between the German delegation, led by Matthias Erzberger, and the Allied Supreme Commander Ferdinand Foch as a deeply human drama, stripping away the grandeur of history to reveal the fear, fatigue, and moral weight borne by the individuals who signed away an era. The novel's tone is elegiac and quietly devastating, illustrating how the seeds of future catastrophe were sown in those claustrophobic hours of compromise and humiliation. Keneally argues, through vivid characterization and meticulous period detail, that the men in that carriage were not architects of peace but prisoners of forces far larger than themselves. The result is a haunting meditation on the gap between the sweep of history and the frailty of the human beings who make it.
Author: Thomas Keneally
Format: Hardback
Published: 1983, Hodder and Stoughton
Genre: Historical fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good , price clipped
Markings: Signed
Condition remarks: DJ - minor glue residue on rear panel.
A richly imagined work of historical fiction, Gossip From The Forest chronicles the tense, fog-shrouded negotiations that took place in a railway carriage in the Forest of Compiègne in November 1918, where a small group of exhausted men hammered out the Armistice that ended the First World War. Thomas Keneally presents the encounter between the German delegation, led by Matthias Erzberger, and the Allied Supreme Commander Ferdinand Foch as a deeply human drama, stripping away the grandeur of history to reveal the fear, fatigue, and moral weight borne by the individuals who signed away an era. The novel's tone is elegiac and quietly devastating, illustrating how the seeds of future catastrophe were sown in those claustrophobic hours of compromise and humiliation. Keneally argues, through vivid characterization and meticulous period detail, that the men in that carriage were not architects of peace but prisoners of forces far larger than themselves. The result is a haunting meditation on the gap between the sweep of history and the frailty of the human beings who make it.