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Lisbon - War in the Shadows of the City of Light, 1939-1945 (Paperback)
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Lisbon - War in the Shadows of the City of Light, 1939-1945 (Paperback)
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Lisbon had a pivotal role in the history of World War II, though
not a gun was fired there. The only European city in which both the
Allies and the Axis power operated openly, it was temporary home to
much of Europe's exiled royalty, over one million refugees seeking
passage to the U.S., and a host of spies, secret police, captains
of industry, bankers, prominent Jews, writers and artists, escaped
POWs, and black marketeers. An operations officer writing in 1944
described the daily scene at Lisbon's airport as being like the
movie Casablanca," times twenty. In this riveting narrative,
renowned historian Neill Lochery draws on his relationships with
high-level Portuguese contacts, access to records recently
uncovered from Portuguese secret police and banking archives, and
other unpublished documents to offer a revelatory portrait of the
War's back stage. And he tells the story of how Portugal, a
relatively poor European country trying frantically to remain
neutral amidst extraordinary pressures, survived the war not only
physically intact but significantly wealthier. The country's
emergence as a prosperous European Union nation would be financed
in part, it turns out, by a cache of Nazi gold.
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