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Villa Air-Bel: World War II, Escape, and a House in Marseille

By Rosemary Sullivan

Book information

Year
2007
ISBN
0060732512, 9780060732516, 9780061582929
Open Library ID
OL24254120M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3386291 bytes)
Pages
496\498
Topic
Physics Astronomy
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

France, 1940. The once glittering boulevards of Paris teem with spies, collaborators, and the Gestapo now that France has fallen to Hitler's Wermacht. For Andr? Breton, Max Ernst, Marc Chagall, Consuelo de Saint-Exup?ry, and scores of other cultural elite who have been denounced as enemies of the Third Reich the fear of imminent arrest, deportation, and death defines their daily life. Their only salvation is the Villa Air-Bel, a ch?teau outside Marseille where a group of young people will go to extraordinary lengths to keep them alive. A powerfully told, meticulously researched true story filled with suspense, drama, and intrigue, Villa Air-Bel delves into a fascinating albeit hidden saga in our recent history. It is a remarkable account of how a diverse intelligentsia—intense, brilliant, and utterly terrified—was able to survive one of the darkest chapters of the twentieth century.

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