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Famous Last Words
Famous Last Words
Author: Timothy Findley
In the final days of the Second World War, Hugh Selwyn Mauberley scrawls his desperate account on the walls and ceilings of his ice-cold prison high in the Austrian Alps. Officers of the liberating army discover his frozen, disfigured corpse and his astonishing testament -- the sordid truth that he alone possessed. Fascinated but horrified, they...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780140109610
ISBN-10: 0140109617
Publication Date: 1996
Pages: 416
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Publisher: Penguin Putnam
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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This story of an international cabal and its machinations behind the scenes during World War Two relates the "back stories" of a cast of characters some of whom were real persons and some of whom were fictional. Among the real characters are von Ribbentrop, Sir Harry Oakes, Charles Lindbergh, and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. A strange but compelling novel.


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