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Americans in Paris - Life and Death Under Nazi Occupation 1940-44 (Paperback)
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Americans in Paris - Life and Death Under Nazi Occupation 1940-44 (Paperback)
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An elegantly written and highly informative account of a group of
Americans living in Paris when the city fell to the Nazis in June
1940. In the early hours of 14 June 1940, Nazi troops paraded
through the streets of Paris, marking the beginning of the city's
four-year occupation. French troops withdrew in order to avoid a
battle and the potential destruction of their capital. It wasn't
long before German tanks rumbled past the Arc de Triomphe and down
the Champs Elysees to the Place de la Concorde. The American
community in Paris was the largest in Continental Europe, totalling
approximately 30,000 before the Second World War. Although
Ambassodor Bullitt advised those without vital business in the city
to leave in 1939, over half of the Americans in Paris chose to
stay. Many had professional and family ties to the city; the
majority, though, had a peculiarly American love for the city,
rooted in the bravery of the Marquis de la Fayette and the 17,000
Frenchmen who volunteered to fight for American independence in
1776. An eclectic group, they included black soldiers from the
Harlem Hellfighters, who were determined not to return to the
racial segregation that they faced at home, rich socialites like
Peggy Guggenheim and Florence Jay Gould, as well as painters,
musicians, bankers and businessmen. There were those whose lives
went on as if the Germans were ephemera, those who collaborated and
those, like Dr Sumner Jackson and Etta Shiber, who worked
underground for the resistance movement. This is a book about
adventure, intrigue, passion and deceit, and one which follows its
characters into the Maquis, the concentration camps and overseas.
Filled with a huge amount of new analysis on the Second World War,
'Americans in Paris' is a fascinating, revealing and moving read.
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