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Americans in Paris : life and death under Nazi occupation / Charles Glass.

Summary:

Analyzes the American expatriate experience in Nazi-occupied Paris, drawing on the personal writings and correspondences of a range of individuals to reveal the challenges they faced and the risks many took to support the Resistance.

Record details

  • ISBN: 1594202427
  • ISBN: 9781594202421
  • Physical Description: xvi, 524 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
  • Edition: 1st American edition
  • Publisher: New York : Penguin Press, 2010.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Originally published: London : HarperPress, c2009.
With Note:
MARCIVE 08/05/10
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Pt. 1: 14 June 1940. The American mayor of Paris -- The bookseller -- The Countess from Ohio -- All blood runs red -- 'Le Millionnaire américain' -- 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! -- Résistants 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 -- Libération, not Liberation.
Subject:
World War, 1939-1945 > France > Paris.
Americans > France > Paris > History > 20th century.
France > History > German occupation, 1940-1945.
Paris (France) > History > 1940-1944.
Paris (France) > Intellectual life > 20th century.

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