Les Parisiennes : how the women of Paris lived, loved, and died under Nazi occupation / Anne Sebba.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781250048592
- ISBN: 1250048591
- Physical Description: xxii, 457 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
- Edition: First U.S. edition.
- Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2016.
Content descriptions
General Note: | "First published in Great Britain by Weidenfeld & Nicolson"--Title page verso. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [388]-422) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Les Parisiennes -- War. 1939 : Paris on the edge ; 1940 : Paris abandoned ; 1941 : Paris divided ; 1942 : Paris ravaged ; 1943: Paris trembles ; 1944 (January-June) : Paris awaits -- Liberation. 1944 (June-December) : Paris shorn ; 1945 : Paris returns ; 1946 : Paris adjusts -- Reconstruction. 1947 : Paris looks newish ; 1948-1949 : Paris Americanized -- Peacetime Paris. |
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Genre: | Biographies. |
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- Baker & Taylor
Traces the experiences of women in Nazi-occupied Paris, detailing how, while men were fighting in the war or forced to work in German factories, women worked desperately to care for their families and survive while enduring daily contact with occupying forces. - Baker & Taylor
TheNew York Times best-selling author of That Woman traces the experiences of women in Nazi-occupied Paris, detailing how, while men were fighting in the war or forced to work in German factories, women worked desperately to care for their families and survive while enduring daily contact with occupying forces. - McMillan Palgrave
âAnne Sebba has the nearly miraculous gift of combining the vivid intimacy of the lives of women during The Occupation with the history of the time. This is a remarkable book.â âEdmund de Waal, New York Times bestselling author of The Hare with the Amber Eyes
New York Times bestselling author Anne Sebba explores a devastating period in Paris's history and tells the stories of how women survivedâor didnâtâduring the Nazi occupation.
Paris in the 1940s was a place of fear, power, aggression, courage, deprivation, and secrets. During the occupation, the swastika flew from the Eiffel Tower and danger lurked on every corner. While Parisian men were either fighting at the front or captured and forced to work in German factories, the women of Paris were left behind where they would come face to face with the German conquerors on a daily basis, as waitresses, shop assistants, or wives and mothers, increasingly desperate to find food to feed their families as hunger became part of everyday life.
When the Nazis and the puppet Vichy regime began rounding up Jews to ship east to concentration camps, the full horror of the war was brought home and the choice between collaboration and resistance became unavoidable. Sebba focuses on the role of women, many of whom faced life and death decisions every day. After the war ended, there would be a fierce settling of accounts between those who made peace with or, worse, helped the occupiers and those who fought the Nazis in any way they could.