| Edition |
First American edition. |
| Description |
xvi, 524 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
| Note |
Originally published: London : HarperPress, c2009. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
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." |
| Contents |
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 |
Americans -- France -- Paris -- History -- 20th century.
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France -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945.
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Paris (France) -- History -- 1940-1944.
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Paris (France) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- France -- Paris.
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| ISBN |
9781594202421 |
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1594202427 |
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