Gossip From the Forest, 9780340431047
Paperback
Armistice 1918: Hidden motives and desperate measures shaped Europe’s future.

Gossip From the Forest

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  • Paperback

    240 pages

  • Release Date

    31 December 1988

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Summary

Gossip From the Forest: The Armistice of 1918

In November 1918, within the confines of a railway carriage nestled in a forest near Paris, six men convene to orchestrate an end to the devastating First World War. The German delegation, facing famine and anarchy on their home front, grapples with the stringent terms imposed by the Allies. Yet, both sides are equally burdened by battle fatigue and a shared bewilderment that transcends their national divides.

Thomas Keneally mas…

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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