Americans in Paris: Life and Death under Nazi Occupation 1940–44
图书信息
| 作者 | Charles Glass |
| 出版社 | HarperPress |
| ISBN | 9780007321032 |
| 出版时间 | 2009-03-19 |
| 字数 | 88.5万 |
| 分类 | 进口书,外文原版书,法律,政治,宗教 |
读书简介
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.
目录
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part One: 14 June 1940
Chapter One: The American Mayor Of Paris
Chapter Two: The Bookseller
Chapter Three: The Countess From Ohio
Chapter Four: All Blood Runs Red
Chapter Five: Le Millionnaire américain
Chapter Six: The Yankee Doctor
Part Two: 1940
Chapter Seven: Bookshop Row
Chapter Eight: Americans At Vichy
Chapter Nine: Back To Paris
Chapter Ten: In Love With Love
Chapter Eleven: A French Prisoner With The Americans
Chapter Twelve: American Grandees
Chapter Thirteen: Polly’s Paris
Chapter Fourteen: Rugged Individualists
Chapter Fifteen: Germany’s Confidential American Agent
Part Three: 1941
Chapter Sixteen: The Coldest Winter
Chapter Seventeen: Time To Go?
Chapter Eighteen: New Perils In Paris
Chapter Nineteen: Utopia In Les Landes
Chapter Twenty: To Resist, To Collaborate Or To Endure
Chapter Twenty-One: Enemy Aliens
Part Four: 1942
Chapter Twenty-Two: First Round-Up
Chapter Twenty-Three: The Vichy Web
Chapter Twenty-Four: The Second Round-Up
Chapter Twenty-Five: ‘Inturned’
Chapter Twenty-Six: Uniting Africa
Chapter Twenty-Seven: Americans Go To War
Chapter Twenty-Eight: Murphy Forgets A Friend
Chapter Twenty-Nine: Alone At Vittel
Chapter Thirty: The Bedaux Dossier
Part Five: 1943
Chapter Thirty-One: Murphy Versus Bedaux
Chapter Thirty-Two: Sylvia’s War
Chapter Thirty-Three: German Agents?
Chapter Thirty-Four: A Hospital At War
Chapter Thirty-Five: The Adolescent Spy
Chapter Thirty-Six: Clara Under Suspicion
Chapter Thirty-Seven: Calumnies
Part Six: 1944
Chapter Thirty-Eight: The Trial Of Citizen Bedaux
Chapter Thirty-Nine: The Underground Railway
Chapter Forty: Conspiracies
Chapter Forty-One: Springtime In Paris
Chapter Forty-Two: The Maquis To Arms!
Chapter Forty-Three: Résistants Unmasked
Chapter Forty-Four: Via Dolorosa
Chapter Forty-Five: Schwarze Kapelle
Chapter Forty-Six: Slaves Of The Reich
Chapter Forty-Seven: One Family Now
Chapter Forty-Eight: The Paris Front
Chapter Forty-Nine: Tout Mourir
Part Seven: 24–26 August 1944
Chapter Fifty: Liberating The Rooftops
Chapter Fifty-One: Libération, Not Liberation
Epilogue
Endnotes
Select Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgements
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