Americans in Paris
Subtitle: life and death under Nazi occupation
By: Charles Glass
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Penguin Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 524
ISBN-13: 9781594202421
Description: Acclaimed journalist Glass looks to the American expatriate experience of Nazi-occupied Paris to reveal a fascinating forgotten history of the greatest generation. A moving and deeply thought-provoking book.--"Sunday Telegraph."
Notes: Originally published: London : HarperPress, c2009.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1: 14 June 1940. The American mayor of Paris; title: The bookseller; title: The Countess from Ohio; title: All blood runs red; title: 'Le Millionnaire américain'; title: The Yankee doctor; title: Pt. 2: 1940. Bookshop row; title: Americans at Vichy; title: Back to Paris; title: In love with love; title: A French prisoner with the Americans; title: American grandees; title: Polly's Paris; title: Rugged individualists; title: Germany's confidential American agent; title: Pt. 3: 1941. The coldest winter; title: Time to go?; title: New perils in Paris; title: Utopia in Les Landes; title: To resist, to collaborate or to endure; title: Enemy aliens; title: Pt. 4: 1942. First round-up; title: The Vichy web; title: The second round-up; title: 'Inturned'; title: Uniting Africa; title: Americans go to war; title: Murphy forgets a friend; title: Alone at Vittel; title: The Bedaux Dossier; title: Pt. 5: 1943. Murphy vesus Bedaux; title: Sylvia's war; title: German agents?; title: A hospital at war; title: The adolescent spy; title: Clara under suspicion; title: Calumnies; title: Pt. 6: 1944. The trial of citizen Bedaux; title: The underground railway; title: Conspiracies; title: Springtime in Paris; title: The Marquis to arms!; title: Résistants unmasked; title: Via Dolorosa; title: Schwarze Kappelle; title: Slaves of the Reich; title: One family now; title: The Paris front; title: Tout Mourir; title: Pt. 7: 24-26 August 1944. Liberating the rooftops; title: Libération, not Liberation.