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Gossip From the Forest by Thomas Keneally - ISBN: 9780340431047
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Armistice 1918: Hidden motives and desperate measures shaped Europe’s future.

Gossip From the Forest

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    240 pages

  • Release Date

    31 December 1988

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Summary

In November 1918, in a railway carriage in a forest near Paris, six men meet to negotiate an end to the terrible slaughter of the First World War. Threatened by famine and anarchy at home, the Germans struggle to mitigate the punishing terms offered by the Allies. But both sides are torn by battle exhaustion and a confusion that far exceed their national differences. In this riveting combination of history, speculation and rumour, Thomas Keneally recreates the personalities, ideals, prejudice…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780340431047
ISBN-10:0340431040
Author:Thomas Keneally
Publisher:Hodder & Stoughton
Imprint:Sceptre
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:240
Edition:2nd
Release Date:31 December 1988
Weight:170g
Dimensions:197mm x 129mm x 16mm
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Critics Review

I was intrigued, excited and sure that the vivid snapshots of private-versus-public emotion would coalesce into a moving, meaningful image

Extremely gripping, as well as important historical fiction - New Statesman

As fiction it is absorbing and as history it achieves the kind of significance earned only by sympathy acting on deep knowledge…Keneally’s book belongs…with those like Solzhenitsyn’s AUGUST 1914, books that delineate the past in sympathetic depth and so urge the reader to enter it - New York Times Book Review

I was intrigued, excited and sure that the vivid snapshots of private-versus-public emotion would coalesce into a moving, meaningful image - The Sunday Times

About The Author

Thomas Keneally

Thomas Keneally has been shortlisted for the Booker four times and won it with Schindler’s Ark in 1982. His novels have been filmed (Schindler’s List and The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith) and dramatised (The Playmaker). He has also written several works of non-fiction, including The Place Where Souls are Born, about the American Southwest, and Homebush Boy, a memoir.

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