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Escape from Paris : a true story of love and resistance in wartime France, Stephen Harding

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This book is The Nightingale meets All the Light We Cannot See, only it's all true--a thrilling wartime adventure story of downed American aviators rescued by French resistance fighters, taken to Nazi-occupied Paris, and hidden under the very noses of the Gestapo. Escape from Paris is the true story of a small group of U.S. aviators whose four B-17 Flying Fortresses were shot down over German-occupied France on a single, fateful day: July 14, 1943, Bastille Day. They were rescued by brave French civilians and taken to Paris for eventual escape out of France. In the French capital, where German troops walked on every street and Gestapo agents hid around every corner, the flyers met a brave Parisian resistance family living and working in the Hôtel des Invalides, a complex of buildings and military memorials, where Nazi officials had set up offices. Hidden in the complex the Americans, along with dozens of other downed Allied pilots and resistance operatives, hatched daring escape plots. The danger of discovery by the Nazis grew every day, as did an unlikely romance when one of the American airmen begins a star-crossed wartime romance with the twenty-two-year old daughter of the family sheltering him--a noir tale of war, courage and desperation in the shadows of the City of Light. Based on official American, French, and German documents, histories, personal memoirs, and the author's interviews with several of the story's key participants, Escape from Paris crosses the traditional lines of World War II history with tense drama of air combat over Europe, the intrigue of occupied Paris, and courageous American and Allied pilots and French resistance fighters pitted against Nazi thugs. All of this set in one of the world's most beautiful and captivating cities
Language
eng
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Edition
First edition.
Extent
vii, 278 pages, 16 unnumbered pages
Isbn
9780306922169
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Escape from Paris : a true story of love and resistance in wartime France
Title
Escape from Paris
Title remainder
a true story of love and resistance in wartime France
Statement of responsibility
Stephen Harding
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Author
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Language
eng
Summary
This book is The Nightingale meets All the Light We Cannot See, only it's all true--a thrilling wartime adventure story of downed American aviators rescued by French resistance fighters, taken to Nazi-occupied Paris, and hidden under the very noses of the Gestapo. Escape from Paris is the true story of a small group of U.S. aviators whose four B-17 Flying Fortresses were shot down over German-occupied France on a single, fateful day: July 14, 1943, Bastille Day. They were rescued by brave French civilians and taken to Paris for eventual escape out of France. In the French capital, where German troops walked on every street and Gestapo agents hid around every corner, the flyers met a brave Parisian resistance family living and working in the Hôtel des Invalides, a complex of buildings and military memorials, where Nazi officials had set up offices. Hidden in the complex the Americans, along with dozens of other downed Allied pilots and resistance operatives, hatched daring escape plots. The danger of discovery by the Nazis grew every day, as did an unlikely romance when one of the American airmen begins a star-crossed wartime romance with the twenty-two-year old daughter of the family sheltering him--a noir tale of war, courage and desperation in the shadows of the City of Light. Based on official American, French, and German documents, histories, personal memoirs, and the author's interviews with several of the story's key participants, Escape from Paris crosses the traditional lines of World War II history with tense drama of air combat over Europe, the intrigue of occupied Paris, and courageous American and Allied pilots and French resistance fighters pitted against Nazi thugs. All of this set in one of the world's most beautiful and captivating cities
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UKMGB
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1952-
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Harding, Stephen
Dewey number
940.53/44
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
Literary form
non fiction
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bibliography
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  • World War, 1939-1945
  • World War, 1939-1945
  • World War, 1939-1945
  • World War, 1939-1945
  • World War (1939-1945)
  • Military operations, Aerial
  • Underground movements, War
  • France
  • United States
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Escape from Paris : a true story of love and resistance in wartime France, Stephen Harding
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Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-261) and index
Control code
on1120216792
Dimensions
24 cm.
Edition
First edition.
Extent
vii, 278 pages, 16 unnumbered pages
Isbn
9780306922169
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
(OCoLC)1120216792
Label
Escape from Paris : a true story of love and resistance in wartime France, Stephen Harding
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-261) and index
Control code
on1120216792
Dimensions
24 cm.
Edition
First edition.
Extent
vii, 278 pages, 16 unnumbered pages
Isbn
9780306922169
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
(OCoLC)1120216792

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