Patrick Marnham

War in the Shadows 

Resistance, Deception and Betrayal in Occupied France

Published: 2020

Oneworld                       

             

Army of the Night

The Life and Death of Jean Moulin, Legend of the French Resistance

Published: 2000                 

Bloomsbury/Tauris Parke      

Snake Dance

Journeys Beneath a Nuclear Sky

Published: 2013           

Chatto/Vintage             

Wild Mary

A Life of Mary Wesley

Published: 2006           

Chatto/Vintage             

 ‘It’s a fascinating book, a lovely evocation of the provincial France of my youth…. The betrayal of PROSPER is a horrible story and you tell it very well.’  

‘A gripping account of the last days of the Resistance hero tortured to death… A brilliant mix of political thriller and wartime history.’ 

‘There are moments of dazzling brilliance… It has the qualities of a poem or a film.’

Unpicks the complicated web of deceits and half-truths that surrounded much of her life with wit, patience and skill, providing just the sort of compelling read that Wesley did in her novels.

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Patrick Marnham (born 1943) is an English writer, journalist and biographer. He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society Literature in 1988. He is primarily known for his travel writing and for his biographies, where he has covered subjects as diverse as Diego Rivera, Georges Simenon, Jean Moulin and Mary Wesley. His most recent book, published in September 2020, is War in the Shadows: Resistance, Deception and Betrayal in Occupied France, an investigation into the betrayal of a British resistance network in the summer of 1943.