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Yves Beauchamp is our narrator, an English officer who has survived the Great War. Awarded the MC, he finds himself appointed as Lloyd George¿s driver in Paris in 1919. Over the course of a drunken evening, LG reveals to Yves why the treaty he is about to sign in Versailles will not work and that he has no choice but to sign. (¿¿but I am bound/Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears/Do scald like molten lead,¿ he quotes from Lear). LG proves to be a huge influence on Yves, and his words haunt him as events begin to unfold. After coming back to England in 1920, Yves is appointed a King¿s Messenger, a driver delivering intelligence between the embassies of Paris and Berlin and London. He meets General Franz Halder, the man who planned a coup against Hitler in 1938. Yves delivers this information to the Foreign Office, which cynically ignores it, just as Chamberlain is about to board a plane for his infamous meeting with Hitler in Munich.
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A major literary historical novel that covers Europe¿s course through two world wars and beyond, see through the eyes of one man, Lloyd George¿s driver at Versailles in 1919.
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Born in England, emigrated to Canada in his early twenties, lived there for thirty years; now lives and writes full time in Paris.
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- EditoreW&N
- Data di pubblicazione1999
- ISBN 10 0575067292
- ISBN 13 9780575067295
- RilegaturaCopertina rigida
- Numero edizione1
- Numero di pagine480
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