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Lisbon: War in the Shadows of the City of Light, 1939-45

Door Neill Lochery

Categorie	WO II
Boeknummer	#266866
Titel	Lisbon: War in the Shadows of the City of Light, 1939-45
Auteur	Lochery, Neill
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	New York, Public Affairs
Jaar van uitgave	2011
ISBN10	1586488791
ISBN13	9781586488796
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Gilt hardcover, dust jacket, b/w photographs.
Samenvatting	Lisbon had a pivotal role in the history of World War II, though not a gun was fired there. The only European city in which both the Allies and the Axis power operated openly, it was temporary home to much of Europe's exiled royalty, over one million refugees seeking passage to the U. S., and a host of spies, secret police, captains of industry, bankers, prominent Jews, writers and artists, escaped POWs, and black marketeers. An operations officer writing in 1944 described the daily scene at Lisbon's airport as being like the movie Casablanca, times twenty. In this riveting narrative, renowned historian Neill Lochery draws on his relationships with high-level Portuguese contacts, access to records recently uncovered from Portuguese secret police and banking archives, and other unpublishe... (Lees verder)d documents to offer a revelatory portrait of the War's back stage. And he tells the story of how Portugal, a relatively poor European country trying frantically to remain neutral amidst extraordinary pressures, survived the war not only physically intact but significantly wealthier. The country's emergence as a prosperous European Union nation would be financed in part, it turns out, by a cache of Nazi gold.
Pagina's	306
Conditie	Goed — Price tag on front dust jacket.
Prijs	€ 12,50

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