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

Categorie	WO II
Boeknummer	#327367-XD18
Titel	Villa Air-Bel: World War II, Escape, and a House in Marseille
Auteur	Sullivan, Rosemary
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	HarperCollins Publisher
Jaar van uitgave	2006
ISBN10	0060732504
ISBN13	9780060732509
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original black boards, silver lettered spine, dust jacket, illustrated with some b/w photographs, uncut, 8vo.
Samenvatting	“Rosemary Sullivan goes beyond the confines of Air-Bel to tell a fuller story of France during the tense years from 1933 to 1941. . . . A moving tale of great sacrifice in tumultuous times.” — Publishers Weekly Paris 1940. Andre Breton, Max Ernst, Marc Chagall, Consuelo de Saint-Exupery, and scores of other cultural elite denounced as enemies of the conquering Third Reich, live in daily fear of arrest, deportation, and death. Their only salvation is the Villa Air-Bel, a chateau outside Marseille where a group of young people, financed by a private American relief organization, will go to extraordinary lengths to keep them alive. In Villa Air-Bel, Rosemary Sullivan sheds light on this suspenseful, dramatic, and intriguing story, introducing the brave men and women w... (Lees verder)ho use every means possible to stave off the Nazis and the Vichy officials, and goes inside the chateau's walls to uncover the private worlds and the web of relationships its remarkable inhabitants developed.
Pagina's	476
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 9,00

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