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- catalog abstract ""Not long after 2:00 P.M. on June 21, 1943, eight men met in secret at a doctor's house in Lyon. They represented the warring factions of the French Resistance and had been summoned by General de Gaulle's new envoy, a man most of them knew simply as "Max."" "Minutes after the last man entered the house, the Gestapo broke in, led by Klaus Barbie, the infamous "Butcher of Lyon." The fate awaiting Barbie's prisoners was torture, deportation, and death. "Max" was tortured sadistically but never broke: he took his many secrets to his grave. In that moment, the legend of Jean Moulin was born." "Who betrayed Jean Moulin? And who was this enigmatic hero, a man as skilled in deception as he was in acts of heroism? After the war, his ashes were transferred to the Pantheon - France's highest honor - where his memory is revered alongside that of Voltaire and Victor Hugo. But Moulin's story is full of unanswered questions: the truth of his life is far more complicated than the legend conveniently manufactured by de Gaulle." "Resistance and Betrayal tells for the first time in English the epic story of France's greatest war hero, a Schindler-like character of ambiguous motivation. Resistance and Betrayal brings to life the dark and duplicitous world of the French Resistance and offers a startling conclusion to one of the great unsolved mysteries of the Second World War."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog contributor b12472469.
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description ""Not long after 2:00 P.M. on June 21, 1943, eight men met in secret at a doctor's house in Lyon. They represented the warring factions of the French Resistance and had been summoned by General de Gaulle's new envoy, a man most of them knew simply as "Max."" "Minutes after the last man entered the house, the Gestapo broke in, led by Klaus Barbie, the infamous "Butcher of Lyon." The fate awaiting Barbie's prisoners was torture, deportation, and death. "Max" was tortured sadistically but never broke: he took his many secrets to his grave. In that moment, the legend of Jean Moulin was born." "Who betrayed Jean Moulin? And who was this enigmatic hero, a man as skilled in deception as he was in acts of heroism? After the war, his ashes were transferred to the Pantheon - France's highest honor - where his memory is revered alongside that of Voltaire and Victor Hugo. But Moulin's story is full of unanswered questions: the truth of his life is far more complicated than the legend conveniently manufactured by de Gaulle." "Resistance and Betrayal tells for the first time in English the epic story of France's greatest war hero, a Schindler-like character of ambiguous motivation. Resistance and Betrayal brings to life the dark and duplicitous world of the French Resistance and offers a startling conclusion to one of the great unsolved mysteries of the Second World War."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-280 and index.".
- catalog description "Map of Lyon -- Map of France -- Introduction -- Part one : The legend. A doctor's house in Caluire -- Into the Panthéon -- Part two : War. The Prefect of Chartres -- Zones -- Life on half-pay -- Part three : Life. A Republican cradle -- A secret man, a complex man -- Moulin Rouge -- Part four : Resistance. An envoy to London -- Life underground -- The army of the night -- Betrayal --An urn and a pot of jam -- Part five : Resurrection. The machinery of insurrection -- Murdering history -- The doctor's waiting room -- Postscript -- Glossary -- Chronology.".
- catalog extent "xvii, 296 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Resistance and betrayal.".
- catalog identifier "037550608X (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Resistance and betrayal.".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Random House,".
- catalog relation "Resistance and betrayal.".
- catalog spatial "France".
- catalog spatial "France.".
- catalog subject "940.53/44 21".
- catalog subject "D802.F8 M263 2000".
- catalog subject "Guerrillas France Biography.".
- catalog subject "Moulin, Jean, 1899-1943.".
- catalog subject "World War, 1939-1945 Underground movements France.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Map of Lyon -- Map of France -- Introduction -- Part one : The legend. A doctor's house in Caluire -- Into the Panthéon -- Part two : War. The Prefect of Chartres -- Zones -- Life on half-pay -- Part three : Life. A Republican cradle -- A secret man, a complex man -- Moulin Rouge -- Part four : Resistance. An envoy to London -- Life underground -- The army of the night -- Betrayal --An urn and a pot of jam -- Part five : Resurrection. The machinery of insurrection -- Murdering history -- The doctor's waiting room -- Postscript -- Glossary -- Chronology.".
- catalog title "Resistance and betrayal : the death and life of the greatest hero of the French Resistance / Patrick Marnham.".
- catalog type "text".