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Who was the enigmatic Jean Moulin, a man as skilled in deception as he was in acts of heroism? The memory of this French Resistance hero, who was betrayed to the Gestapo and tortured by Klaus Barbie, the infamous 'Butcher of Lyon', is revered alongside that of other national icons. But Moulin's story is full of unanswered questions and the truth of his life is far more complicated than the legend. Patrick Marnham, winner of the Marsh Prize for...

One of our very best writers on France.' Antony Beevor After publishing an acclaimed biography of Jean Moulin, leader of the French Resistance, Patrick Marnham received an anonymous letter from a person who claimed to have worked for British Intelligence during the war. The ex-spy praised his book but insisted that he had missed the real 'treasure'. The letter drew Marnham back to the early 1960s when he had been taught French by a mercurial w...

One of our very best writers on France.' Antony Beevor After publishing an acclaimed biography of Jean Moulin, leader of the French Resistance, Patrick Marnham received an anonymous letter from a person who claimed to have worked for British Intelligence during the war. The ex-spy praised his book but insisted that he had missed the real 'treasure'. The letter drew Marnham back to the early 1960s when he had been taught French by a mercurial w...

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Who was the enigmatic Jean Moulin, a man as skilled in deception as he was in acts of heroism? The memory of this French Resistance hero, who was betrayed to the Gestapo and tortured to death by Klaus Barbie, the infamous "Butcher of Lyon", is revered alongside Voltaire and Victor Hugo. But Moulin s story is full of unanswered questions, and the truth of his life is far more complicated than the legend. Patrick Marnham, winner of the Marsh Pri...

A journey across continents and centuries, which explores the dictators, dangerous minds and prehistoric precedents behind the development of nuclear power. '"Snake Dance" is nothing less than the biography of nuclear power, ' Peter Whitaker, "New Internationalist

Joseph Conrad, Aby Warburg und Robert Oppenheimer sind die Begleiter - der Ariadnefaden in Patrick Marnhams Reisebuch aber führt zu den Ursprüngen der Bombe von Hiroshima: von Brüssel mit seinem gigantischen Justizpalast, erbaut aus den Einkünften der kongolesischen Horrorkolonie, in den heutigen Kongo, dorthin, woher das Uran kam. Und weiter nach New Mexico mit seiner ausgelöschten Indianer-Kultur und dem Vermächtnis von Robert Oppenheimer un...

This is a travel classic--the story of Patrick Marnham's pilgrimage from Turkey to Nepal in 1968. He traveled over three thousand miles, passing through Ankara to Ararat, Tehran and Mashad, Herat, Kandahar and Kabul, Peshawar, Lahore and Varanasi...before finally reaching Katmandu. His journey is a kaleidoscopic blend of tortuous train journeys and lethal truck drives, wild deserts, mountains and isolated villages. At heart this is the story o...

A reissue of this astonishing biography about a truly remarkable woman.

The most popular pilgrimage site in the worldThat is Lourdes, a small town in the French Pyrenees, where in 1858 Our Lady appeared to the young peasant girl Bernadette Soubirous. Curiosity and fascination grew steadily, a shrine was erected at the grotto where Bernadette experienced these visions, and Lourdes became a worldwide attraction. Today, more than 4 million people visit the shrine each year. Many come out of desperate hope, and countl...

This engrossing biography of Diego Rivera, the brilliant Mexican artist and revolutionary, captures the explosively passionate nature that made Rivera one of the twentieth-century's most gifted and controversial painters.