Synopsis
In 1933 Irishman Sean Lester was seconded to the League of Nations. His talents as an arbitrator in international conflicts were quickly recognised and the League placed him in Danzig, the flash point of Europe where the League and Nazi Germany clashed. Sean Lester held back the tide of the Nationalist Socialists in Danzig for three hard years. Lester's daughters and his biographer recount the rise of the Nazi party in Danzig and the war of attrition between Lester and the Nationalist Socialists. In 1937 he moved back to Geneva, just when he thought he had moved back to a quieter time, he was to face his greatest challenge yet. While the world descended in to WWII, Lester was fighting an internal battle to save the future of an institution dedicated to international peacekeeping, the League itself. This remarkable story recounts the career of a Sean Lester and the last years of the League of Nations.


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