Resistance and Betrayal: The Death and Life of the Greatest Hero of the French Resistance
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| Rating | : | 4.66 (750 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 037550608X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-12-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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Here Marnham chronicles the life of the civil servant who escaped to London in 1941 and became General DeGaulle's emissary to the Resistance, charged with organizing a collection of scrappy political factions into a cohesive movement. The partisan, whose private life largely remains a mystery, is both a hero and lightning rod in France, where he's been pilloried for his Communist sympathies and where there is still much speculation about who betrayed him to the Gestapo. From Publishers Weekly "As far as he was concerned, the entire world was on a `need to know' basis," notes journalist and biographer Marnham (The Man Who Wasn't Maigret: A Portrait of Georges Simenon) of his notoriously secretive subject, cel
A winner of the Marsh Prize for biography, praised by Graham Greene and Julian Barnes, Patrick Marnham is a brilliant storyteller with a keen appreciation for the complex maze of moral compromises navigated in times of war. “Enthralling and intelligent, a masterly exploration ofthe sinister labyrinth that was wartime France .It is a remarkable book, utterly fascinating.”—Allan MassieNot long after 2:00 p.m. on June 21, 1943, eight men met in secret at a doctor’s house in Lyon. “Max” was tortured sadistically but never broke: he took his many secrets to his grave. Who betrayed Jean Moulin? And who was this enigmatic hero, a man as skilled in deception as h
and I had always heard Moulin spoken of as a great man. I was so looking forward to reading I don't know a lot about Moulin, but I wanted to--that's why I got this book. My parents and my grandmother were in the Resistance, and I had always heard Moulin spoken of as a great man. I was so looking forward to reading it, but honestly, I could not. Every time Marnham needs an adjective to describe Moulin, it is a negative one. Every time he is fishing for a motive in Moulin's actions, the one he names is ulterior. It's almost a joke to call this "the greatest hero of the French resistance," and then portray him the way he does. It's almost as if he means, "If this is the. "Invention" according to William J. Rigby. Marnham admits that the character and personal life of Jean Moulin are at best vague and little of these aspects of the man are known. He then proceeds to build a highly speculative picture of Moulin, largely derived from secondary sources, and drags in the usual "was he a communist agent or was he not?" nonsense. Having just completed a reading of "France: The Dark Years 19Invention William J. Rigby Marnham admits that the character and personal life of Jean Moulin are at best vague and little of these aspects of the man are known. He then proceeds to build a highly speculative picture of Moulin, largely derived from secondary sources, and drags in the usual "was he a communist agent or was he not?" nonsense. Having just completed a reading of "France: The Dark Years 1940 to 1944" by Julian Jackson, by far the best comprehensive coverage of that miserable era in French history, I found Marnham's book, journalistic and amateurish. It adds nothing new and revives a few red . 0 to 19Invention William J. Rigby Marnham admits that the character and personal life of Jean Moulin are at best vague and little of these aspects of the man are known. He then proceeds to build a highly speculative picture of Moulin, largely derived from secondary sources, and drags in the usual "was he a communist agent or was he not?" nonsense. Having just completed a reading of "France: The Dark Years 1940 to 1944" by Julian Jackson, by far the best comprehensive coverage of that miserable era in French history, I found Marnham's book, journalistic and amateurish. It adds nothing new and revives a few red . Invention William J. Rigby Marnham admits that the character and personal life of Jean Moulin are at best vague and little of these aspects of the man are known. He then proceeds to build a highly speculative picture of Moulin, largely derived from secondary sources, and drags in the usual "was he a communist agent or was he not?" nonsense. Having just completed a reading of "France: The Dark Years 1940 to 1944" by Julian Jackson, by far the best comprehensive coverage of that miserable era in French history, I found Marnham's book, journalistic and amateurish. It adds nothing new and revives a few red . " by Julian Jackson, by far the best comprehensive coverage of that miserable era in French history, I found Marnham's book, journalistic and amateurish. It adds nothing new and revives a few red . This author has an ulterior agenda I was enthusiastic when I found this book since English books on Resistance are few, and books about Moulin are very rare. But I was to be disappointed.The author claims to seek the real man behind the legend of Jean Moulin, who became the symbol of French Resistance, and it is a very worthwhile objective indeed except that it is impossible. So after he admits that very little is known about Moulin, he proceeds to fill these unknowns with conjectures built on conjectures, and it soon becomes clear that the purpose of this book is not to find the human and real Moulin, but to d