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217 pages ; 23 cm
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English
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Leonie Harcourt, nearly eighteen, has turned her back on England - she's in love with Parisian life, and with the young painter met there at her god mother's house. But it's the summer of 1939; she's sent home, reluctantly, to a London preparing for war. After a brief, ecstatic reunion with Luc, come to join de Daulle's Free French, she is dispatched to an unknown aunt's farm in Somerset. Luc doesn't return after the war, but throughout her eventual...
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6 audio discs (approximately 74 min. each) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Michel Roth is a young German soldier working as a translator. At night he dresses as a civilian and becomes Monsieur Antoine, a young Frenchman. One day he mets Chantal and falls in love, she warns him to stay away from Café Turachevsky, a night spot for German soldiers. Too late he discovers she's a member of the Resistance and he ends up on the other side of the SS interrogation machine.
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xi, 385 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From Martin Dugard, the #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of the Killing series with Bill O'Reilly, comes the spellbinding story of the Allied liberation of Paris from the grip of the Nazis during World War II"--
May 1940. The world is stunned as Hitler's forces invade France with a devastating blitzkrieg aimed at Paris. Within weeks, the French government has collapsed, and the City of Lights, revered for its carefree lifestyle, intellectual...
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321 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Berlin, 1939. The Hot-Time Swingers, a popular German American jazz band, have been forbidden to play live because the Nazis have banned their 'degenerate music.' After escaping to Paris, where they meet Louis Armstrong, the band's brilliant young trumpet-player, Hieronymus Falk, is arrested in a café by the Gestapo. It is June 1940. He is never heard from again. He is twenty years old, a German citizen. And he is black. Berlin, 1992. Falk, now...
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242 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"The liberation of Paris tells the dramatic story of the Allied decision in World War II to divert from the strategic plan in order to save the City of Light from chaos and assist de Gaulle's efforts to become France's new leader even as the German general in charge of the occupation defied his orders to destroy the city as the Allies closed in."--
Following their breakout from Normandy in late June 1944, the Allies swept across northern France in...
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xviii, 524 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 22 cm
Language
English
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."
Analyzes the American expatriate experience in Nazi-occupied Paris, drawing on the personal writings and correspondences of individuals to reveal the challenges they faced and the risks many took to support the Resistance....
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1 videodisc (172 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The courage-filled story of the Allied Resistance and the Paris Liberation of 1944. As the Nazi jackboot marches through Europe, the freedom fighters of Paris mount a brave resistance. Nominated for Best Cinematography and Best Art Direction at the **Academy Awards.** Nominated for Best Original Score at the **Golden Globes.**
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371 pages ; 23 cm
Language
Español
Description
A family saga marked by a story of impossible love, beautifully set in Spain and France in the Second World War and narrated with great sensitivity. April 1945. Andreu Ribera, freed from Dachau concentration camp, has only one purpose: to get to Paris and get news of Rosa, his wife. There, in the hotel Lutetia, the Red Cross assists the deportees and organizes all the information reaching the capital: endless relations of dead, of disappeared and,...
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viii, 545 pages, 26 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the lives of ordinary Parisians during World War II, from September 1939 when France went to war with Nazi Germany to liberation in August 1944. Relive the fearful exodus from the city as the German army neared the capital, the relief and disgust felt when the armistice was signed, and the hardships and deprivations under Occupation.
"Paris at War chronicles the lives of ordinary Parisians during World War II, from September 1939 when...
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