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100 1 $aMazzeo, Tilar J.
245 14 $aThe hotel on Place Vendôme :$blife, death, and betrayal at the Hôtel Ritz in Paris /$cTilar J. Mazzeo.
260 $aNew York :$bHarper,$cc2014.
300 $axxii, 292 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aThe 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.
520 $a"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.
610 20 $aRitz Hotel (Paris, France)
651 0 $aFrance$xHistory$yGerman occupation, 1940-1945.
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