num_pages: 375
description: 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 learn of a dazzling array of characters caught up in scandal and political corruption. The exiled Duke and Duchess of Windsor, von Ribbentrop, Hitler, Charles Lindbergh, Sir Harry Oakes—all play sinister parts in an elaborate scheme to secure world domination.
language: English
title: Modern Classics Famous Last Words
titlecomplete: Modern Classics Famous Last Words
genres: Fiction, Historical, War, Canadian Literature, Canada, Literature, Novels, Historical Fiction, 20th Century, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 1789
publisher: Penguin Books