num_pages: 396
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: Famous Last Words
titlecomplete: Famous Last Words
genres: Fiction, Historical, War, Canadian Literature, Canada, Literature, Novels, Historical Fiction, 20th Century, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 1789
publisher: Penguin Books