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Resistance and Betrayal: The Death and Life of Jean Moulin, the Greatest Hero of the French Resistance (Hardcover)

by Patrick Marnham (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Random House; 1st Us edition (Mar 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 037550608X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0375506086
  • Product Dimensions: 24.1 x 16.3 x 2.9 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 stars Well researched and written, 27 Oct 2003
For many years I have been intrigued by the mystique surrounding Jeam Moulin and it is obvious that Patrick Marnham has done his research. It is also to his credit that he has managed to clear away a great deal of the 'fog' surrounding the events leading to Moulin's betrayal and death. Don't read this book with the expectation that the traitor(s) will be unmasked in the last chapter aka Agatha Christie - real life isn't like that. What you will learn is that the many characters involved in the French resistance all had their different motives, some admirable and some less so. Patrick Marnham succeeds brilliantly in bringing Moulin to life and it is very difficult to disagree with his conclusions. This book should be required reading for all French schoolchildren.
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5 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing, 5 Dec 2002
By S. T. Page "henry707" (London) - See all my reviews
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Well, it is not what I was expecting. I welcome a critical review of this mythical figure but what I was not expecting was a stale account full of conspiracy theory-style analysis trying to prove/implicate who knows what about Jean Moulin.

The 'evidence' about Jean's involvement/link with the communists is interesting but painting people such as Jean as characters trying to build up their own empire....really, this fails to consider the scenario in France at this time. These were years of fear, terror & chronic uncertainty (the book does to an extent acknowledge this)....some politics yes but these were not normal years.

Also, consider what Jean's motivation was - was it to create a career for himself after the war??? People did not plan like that in France at this time. I would like to know more about the man & his struggles, his resistance, his death - the book was very weak in this area.

H707

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3.0 out of 5 stars The Mystery Continues, 8 Aug 2009
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I was a little disappointed. I know quite a bit about the "Resistance" in France in WW2 and also about the fight against the mixed bag of idealists, terrorists, spies, saboteurs and criminals who composed its various sectors (the worst usually being the riff-raff which emerged in 1944 and known as "the Maquis". This book did a good job in tracing Moulin's career before WW2 and in noting his dodgy connections of a Communist or pro-Communist, fellow-travelling nature. Its weakness is in trying to work out what happened to him in the end and why. The author does note some of the dreadful atrocities carried out in 1944 by self-appointed local "governments" and "courts" (people having eyes gouged out by garden implements etc, murder of wives and children of "collaborators" actual or imagined etc). He makes a feeble attempt to mitigate these crimes by reference to the crimes supposedly carried out by the SS in France in 1944, but in the end cannot even cite, much less prove any, save for Oradour, indeed a "war crime" (about 700 people died), but it has been plausibly written in recent years that in fact two SS officers did that crime for their own benefit, relating to stolen gold bullion. And Oradour's fallen were but a fraction of the daily total of the German population killed under Allied bombing etc. The author says that other villages suffered similarly in 1944 thanks to the SS, but in fact that assertion is not true at all. Few people today (even in France) know that revenge or malicious attacks after 1944 killed more Franch people than the Germans killed in the whole of the Occupation.

Workmanlike but a bit dull.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Balanced and evocative
The book details the strange events surrounding the death of Jean Moulin and does evoke -- at least for me -- the dificult and nerve-racking conditions under which he worked. Read more
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