Americans in Paris Life and Death under Nazi Occupation

Name: Americans in Paris Life and Death under Nazi Occupation
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ISBN: 9780143118664

ISBN-10: 0143118668

ISBN-13: 9780143118664

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Authors: Charles Glass

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An unforgettable portrait of the diverse American community in Paris during the occupation. From the spring of 1940 to liberation in the summer of 1944, Americans in Parisrecounts tales of adventure, intrigue, passion, deceit, and survival under the brutal Nazi occupation through the eyes of the Americans who lived through it all. Renowned journalist Charles Glass tells the story of a remarkable cast of five thousand expatriates-artists, writers, scientists, playboys, musicians, cultural mandarins, and ordinary businessmen-and their struggles in Nazi Paris. Glass's discovery of letters, diaries, war documents, and police files reveals as never before how Americans were trapped in a web of…

Book details

List price: $19.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 2/22/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 560
Size: 5.52" wide x 8.38" long x 1.22" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Maps


List of Illustrations


Introduction



14 June 1940



The American Mayor of Paris



The Bookseller



The Countess from Ohio



All Blood Runs Red



Le Millionnaire amï¿½ricain



The Yankee Doctor



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



1941



The Coldest Winter



Time to Go?



New Perils in Paris



Utopia in Les Landes



To Resist, to Collaborate or to Endure



Enemy Aliens



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



1943



Murphy versus Bedaux



Sylvia's War



German Agents?



A Hospital at War



The Adolescent Spy



Clara under Suspicion



Calumnies



1944



The Trial of Citizen Bedaux



The Underground Railway



Conspiracies



Springtime in Paris



The Maquis to Arms!



Rï¿½sistants Unmasked



Via Dolorosa



Schwarze Kappelle



Slaves of the Reich



One Family Now



The Paris Front



Tout Mourir



24-26 August 1944



Liberating the Rooftops



Libï¿½ration, not Liberation


Epilogue


Endnotes


Acknowledgements


Select Bibliography


Index