The Ghost of Munich by Georges-Marc Benamou
September 29th 1938 was the day the fate of Czechoslovakia was sealed by the Munich Agreement. In 1968, a mysterious American journalist, Czech in origin - lands on a small island in the Rhone river. Her mission is to find Edouard Daladier, and to persuade him, as the only living witness to the events of Munich to tell her his secrets.
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. The Ghost of Munich is proof that he can cannily combine the high concept novel with a talent for historical fiction...the choice of him (Daladier) as protagonist is a masterstroke. The notion of putting one of history's nowhere men at the centre of one of the 20th century great tragedies pays dividends...deft translation...scarifying portraits of Hitler and Mussolini - Independent.
Georges-Marc Benamou is a journalist, who had unprecedented access to Francois Mitterand for three years. His subsequent bestselling book scandalized France. He has since turned it into a film. He lives in France
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| ISBN 13 | 9781847242891 |
| ISBN 10 | 1847242898 |
| Title | The Ghost of Munich |
| Author | Georges-Marc Benamou |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Quercus Publishing |
| Year published | 2008-09-04 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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