The statement - Hardcover

MOORE, Brian

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ISBN 10: 0747524009 ISBN 13: 9780747524007

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 1995

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Seventy-year-old Pierre Brossard, a former pro-Fascist militia officer, has five decades in hiding, with the aid of church and government officials but suddenly finds himself the target of a new breed of government official and justice-seeking assassins. 35,000 first printing. Tour.

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Review:

The backdrop of The Statement is worth a historical book alone. After Nazi Germany occupied France, many Frenchmen took a direct hand in the deportation of more than 80,000 Jews. Following the war, some -- Paul Touvier among them -- were convicted of treason, pardoned in the 1970s, and then rearrested and jailed. Brian Moore takes off from there with a thrilling fictional account of Pierre Brossard, who lives a shadowy life, flees from pursuers and confronts some of France's most vexing questions from an horrific time in its history.

About the Author:

Brian Moore is the author of eighteen novels and was short-listed for the Booker Prize three times. He died in 1999.

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