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When Paris Went Dark: The City Of Light Under German Occupation, 1940-1944 (2014)

by Ronald C. Rosbottom(Favorite Author)

3.88 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0316217441 (ISBN13: 9780316217446)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Little, Brown and Company

review 1: Riveting. Heart wrenching. Emotional. All these things and more. The repercussions of these 4 years still resound in French life to this day. Because of great fear, people didn't know who to trust. Who was listening at your apartment wall, listening below your window, in the street or in a cafe or a queue outside a store? People both famous and not kept diaries, notebooks and journals expressing their feelings and telling what they saw. Many were saved by family and friends and some were made into memoirs of a life during this time. Many of these became the voices in this book. I am so glad I read this book. One of the best I've read this year!
review 2: I found it satisfactorily informative on a topic about which I knew little, but the style certainly won't wi... moren any prizes and I wish that there had been more on the cultural institutions of Paris -- the Opera, the theatre and ballet, the great museums and libraries, the scientific institutes. How did these fare under the Occupation? To what extent did they collaborate or, however subtly, resist? He mentions briefly some important writers and Picasso, but has little else to say about this important aspect of the occupation of a great city of the arts and sciences. less

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