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The Ghost of Munich

The Ghost of Munich

Name: The Ghost of Munich
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Georges-Marc Benamou
ISBN: 9781847247865

Georges-Marc Benamou

07/05/2009
Quercus Publishing

NC (0 avis)

Couverture de The Ghost of Munich par Georges-Marc Benamou

Résumé

Présentation de l'éditeur On September 29th 1938, the fate of a country was sealed at Munich. Hitler, Mussolini, Neville Chamberlain and the President of France, Aedouard 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 reader accompanies Daladier from his departure to Munich to his triumphant but ultimately tragic return to Paris. In Germany we sit with him and the other leaders at the conference table, and as the tensions of the fateful day build up, the political twists and turns and the personal animosities intensify. History made Daladier the Ghost of Munich, the forgotten dupe, the fool cast to oblivion for his role in a thirteen hour blackmail. This is his story. The Ghost of Munich has the sharpness of film, the drama of tragedy and the truth of history. Revue de presse 'The choice of Daladier as a protagonist is a masterstroke' --Independent '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 'Full of suspense… the narrative is gripping' --The Times Biographie de l'auteur 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.