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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 Hardcover - 2006

by Rosemary Sullivan


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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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"Rosemary Sullivan goes beyond the confines of Air-Bel to tell a fuller story of France during the tense years from 1933 to 1941. . . . A moving tale of great sacrifice in tumultuous times." -- Publishers Weekly

Paris 1940. Andre Breton, Max Ernst, Marc Chagall, Consuelo de Saint-Exupery, and scores of other cultural elite denounced as enemies of the conquering Third Reich, live in daily fear of arrest, deportation, and death. Their only salvation is the Villa Air-Bel, a chateau outside Marseille where a group of young people, financed by a private American relief organization, will go to extraordinary lengths to keep them alive. In Villa Air-Bel, Rosemary Sullivan sheds light on this suspenseful, dramatic, and intriguing story, introducing the brave men and women who use every means possible to stave off the Nazis and the Vichy officials, and goes inside the chateau's walls to uncover the private worlds and the web of relationships its remarkable inhabitants developed.

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  • Title Villa Air-Bel: World War II, Escape, and a House in Marseille
  • Author Rosemary Sullivan
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First edition
  • Pages 496
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Harper, New York
  • Date October 3, 2006
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780060732509 / 0060732504
  • Weight 1.57 lbs (0.71 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6.12 x 1.22 in (22.86 x 15.54 x 3.10 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects France - History - German occupation,, Villa Air-Bel (Marseille, France)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006046495
  • Dewey Decimal Code 940.530
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