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Villa Air-Bel

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by Rosemary Sull

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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 Andr√© Breton, Max Ernst, Victor Serge, Marc Chagall, Consuelo de Saint-Exup√©ry, Remedios Varo, Benjamin P√©ret, and scores of other cultural elite denounced as enemies of the Third Reich, fear and uncertainty define daily life. One wrong glance, one misplaced confidence, could mean arrest, deportation, and death. Their only salvation is the Villa Air-Bel, a ch√¢teau outside Marseille where a group of young people will go to extraordinary lengths to keep them alive. Financed by the Emergency Rescue Committee, a private American relief organization, unlikely heroes"šÃ„îfeisty graduate student Miriam Davenport, Harvard-educated classical scholar Varian Fry, beautiful and compelling heiress Mary Jayne Gold, and brilliant young Socialist and survivor of the Battle of Dunkerque Danny B√©n√©dite and his British wife, Theo"šÃ„îcajole, outwit, and use every means possible to stave off the Nazis and newly installed Vichy government officials circling closer with each passing day. The ch√¢teau was a vibrant artistic salon, home to lively debates and clandestine affairs, to Sunday art auctions and subversive surrealist games. Relationships within the house were tense and arguments were common, but the will to survive kept the covert operation under wraps. Beyond the ch√¢teau's luscious façade war raged, yet hope reverberated within its halls. With the aid of their young rescuers, this diverse intelligentsia"šÃ„îintense, brilliant, and utterly terrified"šÃ„îwas able to survive one of the darkest chapters of the twentieth century. is an excellent work of narrative nonfiction that delves into a fascinating albeit hidden saga in our recent history.
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    Penerbit

    Harper Collins

  • Tanggal Terbit

    07 Jul, 2014

    Penulis
    Rosemary Sull
  • Bahasa

    Indonesia

    ISBN

    SCOOPG47116

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