Americans in Paris: Life and Death under Nazi Occupation 1940-1944

About Americans in Paris: Life and Death under Nazi Occupation 1940-1944

"Nearly 30,000 Americans lived in or near Paris before the Second World War. Those who refused to leave were, paraphrasing Dickens, the best and the worst of America. Like the French, some collaborated, other resisted. The Germans forced some into slave labour. At least one was taken back to the United States to face a trial for treason. Americans in Paris under the occupation were among the most eccentric, original and disparate collection of their countrymen anywhere-- tested as few other have been before or since. This is their story"--Page 1.