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[William N. Walker] ☆ Danzig: A Novel of Political Intrigue ☆ Read Online eBook or Kindle ePUB. Danzig: A Novel of Political Intrigue It is a gripping tale in a fateful time: the struggle for the Free City of Danzig.. Richly atmospheric, it is gripping historical fiction in the grand tradition. Through the eyes of Lester and Muller, from their perch at the epicenter of the Danzig conflict, we watch Hitler consolidating power and flexing growing German strength; we see Britain embracing a policy of feckless appeasement, unwilling to confront the looming German menace; and we are caught up in the hothouse atmosphere of a hesitan
| Title | : | Danzig: A Novel of Political Intrigue |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.62 (629 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1533073929 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 506 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-12-04 |
| Language | : | English |
Walker is a winner of the Distinguished Alumnus Award from Wesleyan University. Walker is an experienced base choir singer and he has performed many of the great works in the classical choral music repertoire, including those mentioned in the book. Later, he served as Director of the Presidential Personnel Office for President Ford. Mr. Walker is also an accomplished athlete. He was general counsel of two government agencies and was among the principal architects of the US government’s response to the Arab Oil Embargo. Walker was also a close observer of the political intrigue that destroyed Nixon’s presidency.
It is a gripping tale in a fateful time: the struggle for the Free City of Danzig.. Richly atmospheric, it is gripping historical fiction in the grand tradition. Through the eyes of Lester and Muller, from their perch at the epicenter of the Danzig conflict, we watch Hitler consolidating power and flexing growing German strength; we see Britain embracing a policy of feckless appeasement, unwilling to confront the looming German menace; and we are caught up in the hothouse atmosphere of a hesitant League of Nations, brimming with intrigue and infighting and ultimately failing to deliver on its promise of peace through diplomacy and collective security. The story portrays the roles played by Lester and Muller as repeate
. He lived in Geneva for more than two years as the senior diplomat in residence and brings first-hand diplomatic knowledge to telling the story of Danzig. Walker was Ambassador and Chief Trade Negotiator for the United States in the Tokyo Round of Multilateral Trade negotiations conducted under the auspices of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade in Geneva. William N. Walker was also a close observer of the political intrig
"Fabulous World War II Novel" according to Charles S. Olton. William N. Walker’s Danzig is a unique and compelling novel about diplomatic duplicity and failure at a critical moment in modern European history. It tells the true story of the Free City of Danzig, created in the Treaty of Versailles to provide a seaport to landlocked Poland—itself a Versailles creation. Predictably, Danzig became a target of Nazi hatred. Walker’s book tells of poorly conceived and badly implemented British diplomacy that tragically underestimated Nazi intentions.But this is not dry history drawn from dusty documents. Walker’s creative novelistic account allows him to invent characters and s. Walker's Debut Novel a Throwback to the Subtle Art of Diplomacy, and the Cost of Appeasement Amazon Customer Walker's inaugural novel depicts the political machinations of post World War I Europe, in which war-weary allies France, England and Poland attempt to mollify an aggressive and re-assertive Germany under Nazi leadership, most notably for the novel, in the the free city of Danzig, whose special status is assured and protected under a League of Nations mandate.After something of a slow start, the pace quickens, as the two League of Nations diplomats in Danzig, Sean Lester and Paul Muller, continually work to limit the Nazi party's impact in Danzig and to ensure free and fair elections, despite the ongoing challenges to their authority. and it's too bad this book was not around as a companion to richard watt I met Bill at my golf club and he mentioned he had written a book about a period in history that has fascinated me for years and which was the focus of my major at Edinburgh University: the interwar years in Europe of the 1920's and 1930's.I gladly got hold of a copy and read it from cover to cover in short order as it is a well composed novel which features many of the issues of that era that are sometimes hard to comprehend: How could a society descend into the awful nightmare of nazism?I read many books on the subject at Edinburgh, and it's too bad this book was not around as a companion to the strictly academic works. The novel b
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