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Book and wrapper still in excellent condition - Actually looks new and unread to me - 280 pg >>> September 29th 1938. The day the fate of Czechoslovakia was sealed by the Munich Agreement. Hitler, Mussolini, Chamberlain and the phantom of Munich, Edouard Daladier, president of the French Council. Summer 1968. A mysterious American journalist, young, female, Czech in origin lands on a small island in the Rhone river. Her mission is to find Edouard Daladier, who is widely believed to be dead and to persuade him, as the only living witness to the events of Munich to let her have access to his extraordinary archive and to tell her his secrets. Daladier is a recluse, obsessed with history and his part in it but the journalist succeeds in drawing from him the astonishing story of the betrayal of a nation. Scene by scene, hour by hour the reader accompanies Daladier from his departure to Munich to his triumphant, but ultimately tragic return to Paris. In Munich we sit with him and the other leaders at the negotiation table, at lunch, in and out of each other's seats, hotel rooms and cars. The tensions of the fateful day build up, the political twists and turns and the personal intensities are described with insight and humour. 'The Ghost of Munich' has the sharpness of a film, the drama of tragedy and the truth of history. >>> A very unusual approach to this monumental event. It gets inside the heads, the idiosyncracies, the personal lives, the weaknesses of character, and the complex pressures at play on Daladier (President of France) and Neville Chamberlain, in the tragic Munich conference of 1938, which led to the betrayal of the Czech republic by the allies. The book works just as well as a study in human psychology (or should one simply say human weakness), as it does as a meticulously researched history. (Goodreads) * Second World War *
