Gossip from the Forest

✍ Scribed by Keneally, Thomas

• Book ID: 109097711
• Publisher: Open Road Media
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 450 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

A gripping reimagining of the drama, ego, intrigue, and madness at work during the World War I armistice negotiations
In November 1918, after four long years of murderous conflict, six men gather in a railroad car in a secluded forest outside Paris, France, to negotiate an end to World War I. A pacifist, left-leaning diplomat with no military knowledge or experience, Matthias Erzberger has been selected by the German high command to represent their surrendering nation, for reasons as baffling to him as to anyone. He is joined by France's aging, vindictive Marshal Foch and Britain's unbending Admiral Wemyss in an attempt to bring peace to a war-torn world. In these claustrophobic quarters the future is to be decided by men driven by ego, prejudice, fear, exhaustion, vengeance, delusion, and, in Erzberger's case, conscience. But the well-meaning diplomat's futile efforts to secure lenient surrender terms will have devastating consequences for Europe, the Fatherland,...