Americans in Paris life and death under Nazi occupation
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."
| Main Author: | Glass, Charles, 1951- |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Penguin Press,
2010.
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| Edition: | 1st American ed. |
| Subjects: |
Table of 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 of 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.