Resistance and Betrayal: The Death and Life of the Greatest Hero of
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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.
Author: Patrick Marnham
Format: Hardback, 296 pages, 163mm x 241mm, 576 g
Published: 2002, Random House (NY), United States
Genre: Autobiography: Historical, Political & Military
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.