num_pages: 480
description: The spellbinding and revealing chronicle of Nazi-occupied Paris.On June 14 1940 German tanks entered a silent and nearly deserted Paris. Eight days later France accepted a humiliating defeat and foreign occupation. Subsequently an eerie sense of normalcy settled over the City of Light. Many Parisians keenly adapted themselves to the situation-even allied themselves with their Nazi overlords.At the same time amidst this darkening gloom of German ruthlessness shortages and curfews a resistance arose. Parisians of all stripes -- Jews immigrants adolescents communists rightists cultural icons such as Colette de Beauvoir Camus and Sartre as well as police officers teachers students and store owners -- rallied around a little known French military officer Charles de Gaulle.When Paris Went Dark evokes with stunning precision the detail of daily life in a city under occupation and the brave people who fought against the darkness. Relying on a range of resources -- memoirs diaries letters archives interviews personal histories flyers and posters fiction photographs film and historical studies -- Rosbottom has forged a groundbreaking book that will forever influence how we understand those dark years in the City of Light.
language: English
title: When Paris Went Dark: The City of Light Under German Occupation, 1940-1944
publisher: Little, Brown and Company