Americans 🇺🇸👥 in Paris: Life 🧬 and ➕ Death 💀 under Nazi Occupation 1️⃣9️⃣4️⃣0️⃣–4️⃣4️⃣
👓 Charles Glass
Americans 🇺🇸👥 in Paris: Life 🧬 and ➕ Death 💀 under Nazi Occupation 1️⃣9️⃣4️⃣0️⃣–4️⃣4️⃣
✅ An elegantly written 🖋️ and ➕ highly informative account of a group of Americans 🇺🇸👥 living in Paris when the city 🏙️ fell to the Nazis in June 1️⃣9️⃣4️⃣0️⃣.When the German 🇩🇪 army occupied Paris in the early hours of 1️⃣4️⃣ June 1️⃣9️⃣4️⃣0️⃣, a large American 🇺🇸 community awaited them ➡️👥. Although the US 👥⬅️ Ambassador had advised those without vital business 👨💼 to leave 🚪⬆️ when war broke out in 1️⃣9️⃣3️⃣9️⃣, almost five 5️⃣ thousand remained. Many had professional and ➕ family 👪️ ties 👔 to Paris, and ➕ most had a peculiarly American 🇺🇸 love ❤️ for the city 🏙️ that was rooted in the bravery of the thousands of Frenchmen who volunteered to help win 🏆️ American 🇺🇸 independence after 1️⃣7️⃣7️⃣6️⃣. As citizens of a neutral 😐️ nation, they believed 💜 they had little to fear 😨. They were wrong. For four 4️⃣ hard years, from the summer of 1️⃣9️⃣4️⃣0️⃣ until US 👥⬅️ troops occupied Paris in August 1️⃣9️⃣4️⃣4️⃣, Americans 🇺🇸👥 were intimately caught up ⬆️ in the citys fate.Those who stayed behind were an eccentric, original and ➕ disparate group. Charles Bedaux, a Frenchborn, naturalized American 🇺🇸 millionaire, had played ▶️ host to the Duke of Windsors wedding 💒 in 1️⃣9️⃣3️⃣7️⃣ and ➕ went ➡️ on throwing lavish parties 👯♂️ for European 🏤 royalty and ➕ high-ranking Nazi officials. Countess Clara Longworth de Chambrun, who accepted the legitimacy of the Vichy regime, dealt with anyone, including the Nazis, to keep her 👤👩⬅️ beloved American 🇺🇸 Library of Paris open 😃. Sylvia Beach 🏖️ attempted to 🏃♂️ run her 👤👩⬅️ famous English 🏴-language bookshop, Shakespeare & Company, whilst providing help to her 👤👩⬅️ Jewish 🕍 friends and ➕ her 👤👩⬅️ colleagues in the Resistance. Dr Sumner Jackson, wartime chief surgeon of the American 🇺🇸 Hospital 🏥 in Paris, risked his 👤👨⬅️ life 🧬 aiding Allied soldiers to escape to Britain 🇬🇧 and ➕ resisting the occupier from the first 🥇 day.Charles Glass 🥛 has written 🖋️ an exciting, fast ☄️⏱️-paced and ➕ elegant account of the moral contradictions faced 😀 by Americans 🇺🇸👥 in Paris during Frances most dangerous ⚡️ years. His 👤👨⬅️ discovery of letters 🔠, diaries, war documents 📃 and ➕ police 👮 files 📁 reveals as never before how American 🇺🇸 expatriates were trapped in a web 🕸️ of intrigue, collaboration and ➕ courage. This is an unforgettable tale of treachery by some, cowardice by others and ➕ unparalleled bravery by a few.
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