The Lisbon route
Subtitle: entry and escape in Nazi Europe
By: Ronald Weber
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9781566638760; 9781566638920
Subjects: Social life and customs; Exiles; Escapes; Immigrants; Neutrality; World War, 1939-1945; Biography; History
Description: "... Tells of the extraordinary World War II transformation of Portugal's tranquil port city into the great escape hatch of Nazi Europe"--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Hub of the Western universe; title: Tramping forward; title: Whatever we can; title: The last lap; title: Gaiety, plenty, and brilliant lights; title: Living there; title: Celebrité de passage; title: Holding out hopes; title: Gloriously neutral; title: War without guns; title: The seething cauldron; title: One world to another; title: Wolfram by day; title: Where to spend one's holiday.