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The Ghost of Munich
Georges-Marc Benamou
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Description for The Ghost of Munich
Paperback. A gripping novel which vividly brings to life the negotiations which led to the betrayal of Czechoslovakia by England and France at the Munich Conference in 1938. Translator(s): Whiteside, Shaun. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 194. Clean copy. Good to very good
On September 29th 1938 the fate of a country was sealed at Munich. Hitler, Mussolini, Neville Chamberlain and the President of France, Edouard Daladier negotiated the handover to Germany of the Sudetenlands, and with it came the betrayal of a nation by the great European powers. Chamberlain claimed 'Peace with honour'. Daladier returned to Paris a hero, the man who saved France from another disastrous war with Germany. Yet he knew he had failed. 'I had been knocked out of the ring,' he says in this extraordinary novel, based upon detailed historical research. Scene by scene, hour by hour the ... Read more
On September 29th 1938 the fate of a country was sealed at Munich. Hitler, Mussolini, Neville Chamberlain and the President of France, Edouard Daladier negotiated the handover to Germany of the Sudetenlands, and with it came the betrayal of a nation by the great European powers. Chamberlain claimed 'Peace with honour'. Daladier returned to Paris a hero, the man who saved France from another disastrous war with Germany. Yet he knew he had failed. 'I had been knocked out of the ring,' he says in this extraordinary novel, based upon detailed historical research. Scene by scene, hour by hour the ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Quercus
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847247865
SKU
KST0016741
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99-1
About Georges-Marc Benamou
Georges-Marc Benamou is a journalist and the author of The Last Mitterand, the bestselling biography of Francois Mitterand which scandalized France. He has since turned it into a film. He is now the cultural advisor to President Sarkozy and lives in France.
Reviews for The Ghost of Munich
Daladier is the unlikely protagonist of this compelling novel...he is a sympathetic if utterly ineffectual character, strangely human as he blusters at Chamberlain...this novel succeeds in making history unfamiliar as it thinks about abandoned contexts of historical events - Literary Review
Literary Review
Full of suspense... the narrative is gripping' The Times.
The Times
The choice ... Read more
Literary Review
Full of suspense... the narrative is gripping' The Times.
The Times
The choice ... Read more