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    Les Parisiennes: How the Women of Paris Lived, Loved, and Died Under Nazi Occupation
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    Les Parisiennes: How the Women of Paris Lived, Loved, and Died Under Nazi Occupation
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    Les Parisiennes: How the Women of Paris Lived, Loved, and Died Under Nazi Occupation
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    Les Parisiennes: How the Women of Paris Lived, Loved, and Died Under Nazi Occupation

    Written by Anne Sebba

    Narrated by Polly Stone

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    About this audiobook

    New York Times bestselling author Anne Sebba explores a devastating period in Paris's history and tells the stories of how women survived—or didn’t—during the Nazi occupation.

    Paris in the 1940s was a place of fear, power, aggression, courage, deprivation, and secrets. During the occupation, the swastika flew from the Eiffel Tower and danger lurked on every corner. While Parisian men were either fighting at the front or captured and forced to work in German factories, the women of Paris were left behind where they would come face to face with the German conquerors on a daily basis, as waitresses, shop assistants, or wives and mothers, increasingly desperate to find food to feed their families as hunger became part of everyday life.

    When the Nazis and the puppet Vichy regime began rounding up Jews to ship east to concentration camps, the full horror of the war was brought home and the choice between collaboration and resistance became unavoidable. Sebba focuses on the role of women, many of whom faced life and death decisions every day. After the war ended, there would be a fierce settling of accounts between those who made peace with or, worse, helped the occupiers and those who fought the Nazis in any way they could.

    This program includes an interview with the author and her editor.

    The audiobook is read by Polly Stone, narrator of The Nightingale and Sarah's Key. In a starred Library Journal review of The Nightingale, Stone was applauded for her "impeccable narration that brings...wartime France to life with a distinctive and memorable set of voices that will keep listeners coming back for more."

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Audio
    Release dateOct 18, 2016
    ISBN9781427284914
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    Les Parisiennes: How the Women of Paris Lived, Loved, and Died Under Nazi Occupation
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    Anne Sebba

    ANNE SEBBA is a prize-winning biographer, lecturer, and former Reuters foreign correspondent who has written several books, including That Woman and Les Parisiennes. A former chair of Britain’s Society of Authors and now on the Council, Anne is also a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research. She lives in London.

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