The Night Will End: Memoirs of a Revolutionary
by Frenay, Henri
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Good++
- ISBN 10
- 0070221359
- ISBN 13
- 9780070221352
- Seller
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Benalla, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1976. Hardcover. Very Good/Good++. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The jacket has loss to the head and tail of the spine and lightly crushed also along the head and tail as well as being chipped at the edges. It all sounds worse than it actually is. Internally, apart from intermittent minor foxing, a clean, unmarked and solid copy. First published in 1973 as La Nuit Finira, translated by Dan Hofstadter. xvi, 469 pages, indexed, illustrated. "Henri Frenay Sandoval (1905 -1988) was a French military officer and French Resistance member. He was born in Lyon, France, on 11 November 1905, into a Catholic family with a military tradition. He studied the Germanic languages at the University of Strasbourg. Afterwards, he became a soldier like his father and studied in Saint Cyr and the École Supérieure de Guerre and reached the rank of captain in 1934. At the outbreak of World War II, he rejoined the French army. German forces captured him in Vosges. He arrived in Marseille after escaping from a POW camp in Alsace on 27 June 1940. At first Frenay supported the Vichy Regime but was soon disillusioned by the Nazi tendency of the Pétain regime, and he subsequently formed the French Resistance group Mouvement de Libération Nationale in 1940. He became an editor of underground newspapers such as Vérités (Truths) and had a hand in the formation of the Combat group in November 1941. In 1943, his group participated in the forming of the Conseil National de la Résistance of Jean Moulin, but Frenay refused a seat since he disagreed over the admission of political parties to the Conseil. When the Gestapo captured Moulin, Frenay fled to Algiers. In November 1943, he met Charles de Gaulle, who appointed him as a minister of prisoners, refugees and deportees. After the war, Frenay served in de Gaulle's first provisional government. He retired from the political life and became a businessman. He published his autobiography, The Night Will End: Memoirs of a Revolutionary in 1976 and criticised Moulin and de Daulle as reckless." (Wikipedia)
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- Bookseller
- Good Reading Second Hand Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 018524
- Title
- The Night Will End: Memoirs of a Revolutionary
- Author
- Frenay, Henri
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good++
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0070221359
- ISBN 13
- 9780070221352
- Publisher
- McGraw-Hill Book Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1976
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- World War Two French Resistance
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