Book Store - WW II
Wartime Sites in Paris
Paris never ceases to delight its millions of visitors. This book is a guide to historical sites in Paris associated with the Second World War, which official French histories call La Guerre 39-45.
The Arsenal of Democracy
A dramatic, intimate narrative of how Ford Motor Company went from making automobiles to producing the airplanes that would mean the difference between winning and losing World War II.
Suite Francaise
Celebratedin pre-WWII France for her bestselling fiction, the Jewish, Russian-born Némirovsky, was shipped to Auschwitz in the summer of 1942, months after Suite Francaise, her ong-lost masterwork was compos
Americans in Paris: Life and Death Under Nazi Occupation
When the German army marched into Paris on June 14, 1940, approximately 5,000 Americans remained in Paris.
Unlikely Collaboration
Brave Genius
Sean Carroll’s never-before-told account of the intersection of two of the most insightful minds of the twentieth century, Nobel Prize winners Albert Camus and Jacques Monod is a dramatic story of how war, resistance, and courage can catalyze genius.
The Nazi and The Psychiatrist
In 1945, after his capture at the end of the Second World War, Hermann Göring arrived at an American-run detention center in war-torn Luxembourg, accompanied by sixteen suitcases and a red hatbox. The suitcases contained all manner of paraphernalia: medals, gems, two cigar cutters, silk underwear, a hot water bottle, and the equivalent of $1 million in cash.
The Hotel on Place Vendome
With this material Lubitsch could have have made a great comedy in the style of Ninotchka.
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