The hotel on Place Vendôme : life, death, and betrayal at the Hôtel Ritz in Paris / Tilar J. Mazzeo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mazzeo, Tilar J., Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ritz Hotel (Paris, France)--History.

Ritz Hotel (Paris, France).

France--History--German occupation, 1940-1945.

France.

Physical Description:

xxii, 292 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Harper, [2014]

Summary:

"Set against the backdrop of the Nazi occupation of World War II, [this book examines the] history of Paris's world-famous Hôtel Ritz, a ... tale of glamour, opulence, and celebrity; dangerous liaisons, espionage, and resistance"--Amazon.com.

Contents:

The Hôtel Ritz, the mirror of Paris

This Switzerland in Paris : June 1940

All the talk of Paris : June 1, 1898

Dogfight above the Place Vendôme : July 27, 1917

Diamonds as big as the Ritz : September 1, 1940

The Americans drifting to Paris : 1944

The French actress and her Nazi lover

The Jewish bartender and the German Resistance

The American wife and the Swiss director

The German general and the fate of Paris

The press corps and the race to Paris

Ernest Hemingway and the Ritz liberated

Those dame reporters : August 26, 1944

The last trains from Paris

Coco's war and other dirty linen

The blond bombshell and the nuclear scientists

From Berlin with love and last battles in Paris : 1945

Waning powers in Paris : June 1951

The war's long shadow : May 29, 169.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [243]-276) and index.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Miller Fund bookplate.

ISBN:

9780061791086 (hardcover) :

0061791083 (hardcover)

OCLC:

850180311