The spellbinding and revealing chronicle of Nazi-occupied Paris.
Relying on a range of resources -- memoirs, diaries, letters, archives, interviews, personal histories, flyers and posters, fiction, photographs, film and historical studies -- Rosbottom has forged a groundbreaking book that will forever influence how we understand those dark years in the City of Light..
When Paris Went Dark evokes with stunning precision the detail of daily life in a City Under occupation, and the brave people who fought against the darkness.
Parisians of all stripes -- Jews, immigrants, adolescents, communists, rightists, cultural icons such as Colette, de Beauvoir, Camus and Sartre, as well as police officers, teachers, students, and store owners -- rallied around a little known French military officer, Charles de Gaulle.
At the same time, amidst this darkening gloom of German ruthlessness, shortages, and curfews, a resistance arose.
Many Parisians keenly adapted themselves to the situation-even allied themselves with their Nazi overlords.
Subsequently, an eerie sense of normalcy settled over the City of Light.
Eight days later, France accepted a humiliating defeat and foreign occupation.
On June 14, 1940, German tanks entered a silent and nearly deserted Paris.
The spellbinding and revealing chronicle of Nazi-occupied Paris
