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The Death of Jean Moulin: Biography of a Ghost

By: Patrick Marnham
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: John Murray Publishers Ltd
ISBN: 0719559197
ISBN-13: 9780719559198
Released: 15 Jun 2000
RRP: £20.00
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A very poor book - By: , 28 Nov 2001
This book is an enormous disappointment. It is poorly written & is dominated by its authors ludicrous obsession with communism. The agony of France under occupation is reduced to a tale of the evils of the PCF.
It's not my job to speak up for the French Communists, but the fact remains that - despite the dark stain of the Hitler-Stalin pact - it was the CP that was the first to kill a German in occupied France & it was the CP that most effectively mobilised people in the early days of the resistance. In the circumstances it is little wonder that Moulin worked closely with Communists yet this author seems to to think that makes him a fellow-traveller or worse, a Soviet spy.
This ridiculous argument is maintained even after Marnham recounts how Moulin brow beat the CP into accepting the leadership of De Gaulle.
To make matters worse it presents the earlier popular front era through the (rather distorted) glasses of hindsight & equates collective security & an allliance with the Soviet Union as "pacifism".
In short a very poor book.
A fabulous challenge to existing historical "facts" - By: askala@aol.com, 20 Aug 2000
Marnham does a terrific job of challlenging the existing "myth" of Moulin. Moulin was a "creation" of de Gaulle's & Marnham uses excellent historical references to pinpoint as much as is known about Moulin to humanize him & demystify the existing French preoccupation with his place in the Resistance movement. A must read for any serious reader of WWII in Europe.