AMERICANS IN PARIS

Book ID/图书代码： 02630512B55083

English Summary/英文概要： In Americans in Paris, tales of adventure, intrigue, passion, deceit, and survival unfold season by season, from the spring of 1940 to liberation in the summer of 1944, as renowned journalist Charles Glass tells the story of a remarkable cast of expatriates and their struggles in Nazi Paris. Before the Second World War began, approximately thirty thousand Americans lived in Paris, and when war broke out in 1939 almost five thousand remained. As citizens of a neutral nation, the Americans in Paris believed they had little to fear. They were wrong. Glass’s discovery of letters, diaries, war documents, and police files reveals as never before how Americans were trapped in a web of intrigue, collaboration, and courage...

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Awards/获奖情况：PRAISE FOR AMERICANS IN PARIS:

“Fascinating and absorbing...Glass has unearthed facts and figures that both illuminate and perturb” -William Boyd, Sunday Times

“Charles Glass’s highly impressive new book tells us of an assortment of US citizens who remained in Paris during the war. Glass describes the various realities with just the right combination of objectivity and compassion; this is a moving and deeply thought-provoking book.” Noel Malcolm, Sunday Telegraph

“An account of the 2,000 Americans who remained in Paris during the Second World War is rich in intrigue and heroism…for anyone interested in France during this period it is a fascinating treat.” Antony Beevor, Daily Telegraph

“Wartime France comes alive in Glass’s new book…a fine piece of historical research, and powerful insight into one of the darkest periods of modern European history.” Evening Standard

“Charles Glass handles this rich and complex material well… he never loses the reader’s attention… it provides valuable insights into a little-known theatre of that great tragi-comic mess which we call the second world war.” – The Spectator

“In these seamlessly woven stories of daily life under occupation, Glass presents the conflict afresh, in a narrative unusual in its angle and thrilling in its scope”. – The Guardian

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