Description
| Product ID: | 9781035004003 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | An Honourable Exit |
| Authors: | Author: Eric Vuillard |
| Page Count: | 192 |
| Subjects: | Vietnam War fiction, Vietnam War fiction, Historical fiction, Colonialism and imperialism, Military history: post-WW2 conflicts, Historical fiction, Colonialism & imperialism, Vietnam War, France, Vietnam, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Éric Vuillard turns his forensic, darkly humorous eye to the build-up to the war in Vietnam – skewering French and later US politics to show the prelude to the end of the colonial period. <p><b>From the International Booker Prize shortlisted author of <i>The Order of the Day </i>and <i>The War of the Poor </i>comes a searing account of a conflict that dealt a fatal blow to French colonialism.<br><br>'Excoriating and profound . . . A remarkable work'</b> - <i>Scotsman</i><br><b>'Absolutely spectacular' </b><i>- France Info</i><br><br>19 October 1950. The war is not going to plan. In Paris, politicians gather to discuss what to do about Indochina. The conflict is unpopular back home in France: too expensive, and too far away for the public to care. Withdrawal is not an option – a global power cannot surrender to an army of peasants – but victory is impossible without more soldiers and more money. The soldiers can be sourced from the colonies, but the money is out of the question. A solution needs to be found.<br><br>In this gripping and shocking novel, Éric Vuillard exposes the tangled web of politicians, bankers and titans of industry who all had a vested interest in France’s prolonged presence in lands far from Paris. Skilfully skewering the guilty, Vuillard shows us how key players in conflicts throughout history often have a motivation even deeper and darker than nationalism and political ideology – greed. As well as bringing scenes from the battlefields to life, Vuillard looks beyond this visceral reality on the ground to the cold calculations of the boardroom elite with the power to turn a military win or loss into their financial gain.<br><br><b>Short, sharp and brutal, <i>An Honourable Exit</i> by Éric Vuillard is a journey behind closed doors to witness how history is really made.</b></p> |
| Imprint Name: | Picador |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2024-03-28 |
