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Villa Air-Bel: World War II, Escape, and a House in Marseille
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Villa Air-Bel: World War II, Escape, and a House in Marseille Paperback - 2007

by Rosemary Sullivan

The award-winning author of "Shadow Maker: The Life of Gwendolyn MacEwan" pens the riveting, true story of Europe's intellectual elite in Nazi-occupied France before their daring escape. 16-page photo insert.


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France, 1940. The once glittering boulevards of Paris teem with spies, collaborators, and the Gestapo now that France has fallen to Hitler's Wermacht. For Andre Breton, Max Ernst, Marc Chagall, Consuelo de Saint-Exupery, and scores of other cultural elite who have been denounced as enemies of the Third Reich the fear of imminent arrest, deportation, and death defines their daily life. Their only salvation is the Villa Air-Bel, a chateau outside Marseille where a group of young people will go to extraordinary lengths to keep them alive.A powerfully told, meticulously researched true story filled with suspense, drama, and intrigue, Villa Air-Bel delves into a fascinating albeit hidden saga in our recent history. It is a remarkable account of how a diverse intelligentsia—intense, brilliant, and utterly terrified—was able to survive one of the darkest chapters of the twentieth century.

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France, 1940. The once glittering boulevards of Paris teem with spies, collaborators, and the Gestapo now that France has fallen to Hitler's Wermacht. For Andr Breton, Max Ernst, Marc Chagall, Consuelo de Saint-Exupry, and scores of other cultural elite who have been denounced as enemies of the Third Reich the fear of imminent arrest, deportation, and death defines their daily life. Their only salvation is the Villa Air-Bel, a chteau outside Marseille where a group of young people will go to extraordinary lengths to keep them alive.

A powerfully told, meticulously researched true story filled with suspense, drama, and intrigue, Villa Air-Bel delves into a fascinating albeit hidden saga in our recent history. It is a remarkable account of how a diverse intelligentsia--intense, brilliant, and utterly terrified--was able to survive one of the darkest chapters of the twentieth century.

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  • Title Villa Air-Bel: World War II, Escape, and a House in Marseille
  • Author Rosemary Sullivan
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 496
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Harper Perennial, New York
  • Date 2007-10-30
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780060732516 / 0060732512
  • Weight 0.93 lbs (0.42 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.02 x 5.34 x 1.19 in (20.37 x 13.56 x 3.02 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1940's
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Cultural Region: Canadian
    • Cultural Region: French
    • Cultural Region: Spanish
    • Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
    • Topical: Holocaust
  • Library of Congress subjects France - History - German occupation,, Villa Air-Bel (Marseille, France)
  • Dewey Decimal Code 940.530
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