Book
The hotel on Place Vendôme : life, death, and betrayal at the Hôtel Ritz in Paris
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
New York, NY : Harper, [2014]
Physical Description
xxii, 292 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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.
Taking readers behind the doors of Paris's Hotel Ritz during the Nazi occupation of World War II, this extraordinary chronicle reveals a hotbed of illicit affairs, deadly intrigues, courageous acts of defiance and treachery and the people and events that made this opulent cultural landmark legendary.
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, 1969.