Author: BENAMOU, GEORGES-MARC
Title: The Ghost of Munich
Description: London, Quercus. 2008, First. (ISBN: 9781847242891). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. An As New copy in an As New Dustjacket which is not price clipped. First Edition, First Printing. 280 pages. On September 29th 1938 the fate of a country was sealed at Munich, Hitler, Mussolini, Neville Chamberlain and the President of France, Edouard Daladier, negotiated the handover 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 on historical research. Scene bt scene, hour by hour, the reader accompanies daladier from his departure to Munich to his triumphant but ultimatly tragic return to Paris. History made Daladier the Ghost of Munich. D4A. As New/As New.

Keywords: Edouard Daladier, Second World War, Munich, Paris, Hitler, Mussolini, Neville Chamberlain 9781847242891


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