A true story of espionage, adventure and love against the odds during the darkest days of the Second World War. When Claude Peri and Madeleine Bayard meet in Indochina in the 1930s, they fall immediately and passionately in love. They are soulmates, and not only lovers - each works as a spy for the French government. Claude travels alone through Hitler's Germany (where he is invited to dinner with Hermann Goering), the Middle East, India and Thailand. Then, travelling together to Paris in 1939, Claude and Madeleine are ...
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A true story of espionage, adventure and love against the odds during the darkest days of the Second World War. When Claude Peri and Madeleine Bayard meet in Indochina in the 1930s, they fall immediately and passionately in love. They are soulmates, and not only lovers - each works as a spy for the French government. Claude travels alone through Hitler's Germany (where he is invited to dinner with Hermann Goering), the Middle East, India and Thailand. Then, travelling together to Paris in 1939, Claude and Madeleine are appalled as they watch their countrymen flee the capital in terror as the German army advances. Claude and Madeleine tells how, aboard their beloved ship Le Rhin, they abandon their allegiance to France and throw in their lot with the British.
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Add this copy of Claude and Madeleine. a True Story to cart. $27.70, very good condition, Sold by Arapiles Mountain Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Castlemaine, VIC, AUSTRALIA, published 2005 by Picador.
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F- in F- jacket. F-/F-. 8vo. original blue boards gilt (texter mark to top edge, a trifle tanned) in dustwrapper (slightly rubbed); pp. xviii, 344, with illustrations. A near fine copy.
Add this copy of Claude and Madeleine(Hb) to cart. $40.45, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2005 by Picador.
Add this copy of Claude and Madeleine: a True Story to cart. $45.00, very good condition, Sold by Ground Zero Books, Ltd. rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Silver Spring, MD, UNITED STATES, published 2005 by Picador.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by author. Signed on t-p. Signed by previous owner on fep. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. [8], 343, [2] p. Illustrations. Bibliography and Sources. Index. From an online posting: "Ed Marriott is an acclaimed non-fiction writer whose first book, The Lost Tribe, was shortlisted for both the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award and the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize." This is the fascinating story of lovers who specialized in the Far East and worked at the highest levels of British Intelligence and were seconded to the Special Operations Executive.
