The Death Of Jean Moulin
The Death Of Jean Moulin
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Who was Jean Moulin? The official answer is that he was General de Gaulle's emissary to occupied France and became the political head of the Resistance in 1943. However, Marnham searches for the key to Moulin's political convictions and suggests that he may have been working to a private agenda.
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The Death Of Jean Moulin by Patrick Marnham
Who was Jean Moulin? According to the official version, he was the exiled General de Gaulle's emissary to the French Resistance movements in occupied France during World War II and became the political head of the Resistance in 1943. Although he has entered French history as one of the great heroes of World War II, surprisingly little is known about him. He was captured in Lyons and tortured by the Gestapo, and is believed to have died a few days later without talking. Ever since his disappearance, arguments have raged as to whether or not he was betrayed by other Resistance workers. But why should they do that? Was Jean Moulin just a brave civil servant who volunteered as a secret agent. Or was he, as some believe, a French Philby, working to promote a Communist insurrection in France? But in order to find out who he was, one must first know who killed him. Marnham set out to write "an uncritical biography of a very brave man" but his research uncovered a far more fascinating and ambivalent figure. It took him from the Provencal village where Jean Moulin spent his childhood, through his early career and bohemian life as an artist in Montparnasse, right up to the doctor's room in Caluire where he was sitting when Klaus Barbie's Gestapo burst through the door and where, in 1987, Marnham interviewed the doctor himself. The author's biographical detection discloses a plot within a plot and summarizes the evidence as to who actually killed Jean Moulin. He also reveals how a heroic legend was manufactured to take the place of a heroic life.
Patrick Marnham was Literary Editor of the Spectator and Paris correspondent for the Independent. His books include So Far From God (winner of the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award) and The Man Who Wasn't Maigret (winner of the Marsh Biography Award).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780712665841 |
| ISBN 10 | 0712665846 |
| Title | The Death Of Jean Moulin |
| Author | Patrick Marnham |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2001-09-06 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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