Villa Air-Bel World War II, escape, and a house in Marseille
France, 1940. The once-glittering boulevards of Paris teem with spies, collaborators, and the Gestapo now that France has fallen to Hitler's Wehrmacht. It was on this circumstance that three enterprising Americans concentrated their efforts in the first two years of the war. Ivy League scholar Varia...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Harper Perennial,
2007, ©2006.
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| Edition: | 1st Harper Perennial ed. |
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| Summary: | France, 1940. The once-glittering boulevards of Paris teem with spies, collaborators, and the Gestapo now that France has fallen to Hitler's Wehrmacht. It was on this circumstance that three enterprising Americans concentrated their efforts in the first two years of the war. Ivy League scholar Varian Fry, sent by the American Emergency Rescue Committee, heiress Mary Jayne Gold and graduate student Miriam Davenport turned a Marseille chateau into a safe haven for dozens of prominent artists and intellectuals waiting for a chance to emigrate in secrecy, including Hannah Arendt, Marcel Duchamp, Marc Chagall, André Breton, Franz Werfel and perennial exile Victor Serge. |
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| Physical Description: | xv, 476 pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 430-462) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780060732516 0060732512 9780060732509 0060732504 |
