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Americans in Paris : life and death under Nazi occupation
—Glass, Charles, 1951-
2010

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Acclaimed journalist Glass looks to the American expatriate experience of Nazi-occupied Paris to reveal a fascinating forgotten history of the greatest generation. A moving and deeply thought-provoking book.--"Sunday Telegraph."

Item Details

ISBN:

  • 9781594202421
  • 1594202427

Edition: First American edition.

Description: xvi, 524 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm

Notes:

  • Originally published: London : HarperPress, c2009.
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

  • Pt. 1: 14 June 1940. The American mayor of Paris
  • The bookseller
  • The Countess from Ohio
  • All blood runs red
  • 'Le Millionnaire amaĚ‚ericain'
  • The Yankee doctor
  • Pt. 2: 1940. Bookshop row
  • Americans at Vichy
  • Back to Paris
  • In love with love
  • A French prisoner with the Americans
  • American grandees
  • Polly's Paris
  • Rugged individualists
  • Germany's confidential American agent
  • Pt. 3: 1941. The coldest winter
  • Time to go?
  • New perils in Paris
  • Utopia in Les Landes
  • To resist, to collaborate or to endure
  • Enemy aliens
  • Pt. 4: 1942. First round-up
  • The Vichy web
  • The second round-up
  • 'Inturned'
  • Uniting Africa
  • Americans go to war
  • Murphy forgets a friend
  • Alone at Vittel
  • The Bedaux Dossier
  • Pt. 5: 1943. Murphy vesus Bedaux
  • Sylvia's war
  • German agents?
  • A hospital at war
  • The adolescent spy
  • Clara under suspicion
  • Calumnies
  • Pt. 6: 1944. The trial of citizen Bedaux
  • The underground railway
  • Conspiracies
  • Springtime in Paris
  • The Marquis to arms!
  • RaĚ‚esistants unmasked
  • Via Dolorosa
  • Schwarze Kappelle
  • Slaves of the Reich
  • One family now
  • The Paris front
  • Tout Mourir
  • Pt. 7: 24-26 August 1944. Liberating the rooftops
  • LibaĚ‚eration, not Liberation.

LCCN: 2009039650

Control Number: 677288

Publisher: New York : Penguin Press, 2010.
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