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Americans in Paris: Life and Death Under Nazi Occupation by Charles Glass Publisher Comments An unforgettable portrait of the diverse American community in Paris during the occupation. From the spring of 1940 to liberation in the summer of 1944, Americans in Paris recounts tales of adventure, intrigue, passion, deceit, and survival under the... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper 
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Lest Innocent Blood Be Shed by Philip Hallie Publisher Comments During the most terrible years of World War II, when inhumanity and political insanity held most of the world in their grip and the Nazi domination of Europe seemed irrevocable and unchallenged, a miraculous event took place in a small Protestant town... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Wine and War: The French, the Nazis, and the Battle for France's Greatest Treasure by Donald Kladstrup Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [270]-273).... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France by Caroline Moorehead Publisher Comments They were teachers, students, chemists, writers, and housewives; a singer at the Paris Opera, a midwife, a dental surgeon. They distributed anti-Nazi leaflets, printed subversive newspapers, hid resisters, secreted Jews to safety, transported weapons... (read more) Your price: $27.99 New - Hardcover
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Americans in Paris: Life and Death Under Nazi Occupation by Charles Glass Publisher Comments An unforgettable portrait of the diverse American community in Paris during the occupation. From the spring of 1940 to liberation in the summer of 1944, Americans in Paris recounts tales of adventure, intrigue, passion, deceit, and survival under the... (read more) List Price $32.95 Your price: $19.95 Used - Hardcover
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Petain: Verdun to Vichy (Brassey's Military Profiles) by Robert B Bruce Publisher Comments Analyzes the military career of one of the greatest, yet controversial, French military commanders of the twentieth... (read more) List Price $13.50 Your price: $9.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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Vichy France: Old Guard and New Order, 1940-1944 (Morningside) by R O Paxton Publisher Comments Robert O. Paxton's classic study of the aftermath of France's sudden collapse under Nazi invasion utilizes captured German archives and other contemporary materials to construct a strong and disturbing account of the Vichy period in France. With a new... (read more) List Price $9.50 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Collaboration and Resistance: French Literary Life Under the Nazi Occupation by Robert O Paxton Synopsis An exploration of French literary life under the Nazi occupation through hundreds of letters and photographs.... (read more) List Price $65.00 Your price: $29.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Sisters in the Resistance: How Women Fought to Free France, 1940-1945 by Margaret Weitz Publisher Comments Sisters in the Resistance "I was in my early twenties when the Germans invaded our country. To this day, when I read about a rape trial, I am reminded of the Occupation. This was really violation—violation of my country. It was impossible to... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Fleeing Hitler: France 1940 by Hanna Diamond Publisher Comments As Hitler's victorious armies approached Paris, panic gripped the city and the roads heading south filled with millions of French citizens, fleeing for their lives, with scant supplies and often no destination in mind. All hoped, as famed author Simone... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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France and the Second World War: Resistance, Occupation and Liberation (Introduction to History) by Peter Davies Publisher Comments France and the Second World War is a concise introduction to a crucial and controversial period of French history - world war and occupation. During World War Two, France had the dramatic experience of occupation by the Germans and the legacy of this... (read more) List Price $38.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Bad Faith: A Forgotten History of Family, Fatherland and Vichy France by Carmen Callil Publisher Comments Bad Faith tells the story of one of history's most despicable villains and con men — Louis Darquier de Pellepoix, Nazi collaborator and "Commissioner for Jewish Affairs," who managed the Vichy government's dirty work, "controlling" its Jewish... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $16.95 Used - Hardcover
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Résistance by Agnes Humbert Publisher Comments Agn?'s Humbert was an art historian in Paris during the German occupation in 1940. Stirred to action by the atrocities she witnessed, she joined forces with several colleagues to form an organized resistance-very likely the first such group to fight back... (read more) List Price $11.99 Your price: $11.09 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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And the Show Went on: Cultural Life in Nazi-Occupied Paris (Vintage) by Alan Riding Publisher Comments On June 14, 1940, German tanks rolled into a silent and deserted Paris. Eight days later, a humbled France accepted defeat along with foreign occupation. While the swastika now flew over Paris, the City of Light was undamaged, and soon a peculiar kind of... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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Resistance: A Woman's Journal of Struggle and Defiance in Occupied France by Agnes Humbert Publisher Comments A real-life Suite Française, this riveting diary by a key female member of the French Resistance in WWII is translated into English for the first time. Agnès Humbert was an art historian in Paris during the German occupation in 1940. Though... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Strange Defeat: A Statement of Evidence Written in 1940 by Marc Bloch Publisher Comments Marc Bloch wrote Strange Defeat during the three months following the fall of France, after he returned home from military service. In the midst of his anguish, he nevertheless "brought to his study of the crisis all the critical faculty and all the... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Villa Air-Bel: World War II, Escape, and a House in Marseille by Rosemary Sullivan Publisher Comments 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 AndrE Breton, Max Ernst, Victor Serge, Marc Chagall, Consuelo de Saint-ExupEry, Remedios Varo... (read more) Your price: $10.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Unfree French: Life Under the Occupation by Richard Vinen Publisher Comments The swift and unexpected defeat of the French Army in 1940 shocked the nation. This compelling book investigates the impact of the occupation on the people of France and dispels any lingering notion that somehow, under the collaborating government of... (read more) List Price $37.00 Your price: $16.95 Used - Hardcover
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We Were Free by Constantin Joffe Synopsis Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $5.75 Used - Trade Paper
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Fleeing Hitler: France 1940 by Hanna Diamond Publisher Comments As Hitler's victorious armies approached Paris, panic gripped the city and the roads heading south filled with millions of French citizens, fleeing for their lives, with scant supplies and often no destination in mind. All hoped, as famed author Simone... (read more) List Price $41.00 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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