Americans in Paris

by Glass, Charles

• ISBN13: 9780143118664
• ISBN10: 0143118668
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-02-22
• Publisher: Penguin Group USA

Summary

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 Parisrecounts tales of adventure, intrigue, passion, deceit, and survival under the brutal Nazi occupation through the eyes of the Americans who lived through it all. Renowned journalist Charles Glass tells the story of a remarkable cast of five thousand expatriates-artists, writers, scientists, playboys, musicians, cultural mandarins, and ordinary businessmen-and their struggles in Nazi Paris. 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.

Table of Contents

Maps	p. xiii
List of Illustrations	p. xvii
Introduction	p. 1
14 June 1940
The American Mayor of Paris	p. 9
The Bookseller	p. 24
The Countess from Ohio	p. 37
All Blood Runs Red	p. 50
Le Millionnaire américain	p. 60
The Yankee Doctor	p. 66
1940
Bookshop Row	p. 89
Americans at Vichy	p. 98
Back to Paris	p. 113
In Love with Love	p. 121
A French Prisoner with the Americans	p. 136
American Grandees	p. 139
Polly's Paris	p. 144
Rugged Individualists	p. 150
Germany's Confidential American Agent	p. 159
1941
The Coldest Winter	p. 169
Time to Go?	p. 174
New Perils in Paris	p. 180
Utopia in Les Landes	p. 188
To Resist, to Collaborate or to Endure	p. 193
Enemy Aliens	p. 204
1942
First Round-up	p. 213
The Vichy Web	p. 224
The Second Round-up	p. 239
'Inturned'	p. 246
Uniting Africa	p. 261
Americans Go to War	p. 268
Murphy Forgets a Friend	p. 275
Alone at Vittel	p. 280
The Bedaux Dossier	p. 283
1943
Murphy versus Bedaux	p. 291
Sylvia's War	p. 298
German Agents?	p. 304
A Hospital at War	p. 310
The Adolescent Spy	p. 314
Clara under Suspicion	p. 318
Calumnies	p. 325
1944
The Trial of Citizen Bedaux	p. 335
The Underground Railway	p. 341
Conspiracies	p. 347
Springtime in Paris	p. 350
The Maquis to Arms!	p. 358
Résistants Unmasked	p. 363
Via Dolorosa	p. 371
Schwarze Kappelle	p. 374
Slaves of the Reich	p. 376
One Family Now	p. 378
The Paris Front	p. 385
Tout Mourir	p. 393
24-26 August 1944
Liberating the Rooftops	p. 407
Libération, not Liberation	p. 411
Epilogue	p. 413
Endnotes	p. 419
Acknowledgements	p. 491
Select Bibliography	p. 495
Index	p. 501
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