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050 00 $aD802.F82$bM3775 2006
082 00 $a940.53086/9140944$222
100 1 $aSullivan, Rosemary,$d1947-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85350896
245 10 $aVilla Air-Bel :$bWorld War II, escape, and a house in Marseille /$cRosemary Sullivan.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bHarper Collins,$c©2006.
300 $axv, 476 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [455]-462) and index.
520 1 $a"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 Andre Breton, Max Ernst, Victor Serge, Marc Chagall, Consuelo de Saint-Exupery, Remedios Varo, Benjamin Peret, 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 chateau 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 - feisty 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 Benedite and his British wife, Theo - cajole, outwit, and use every means possible to stave off the Nazis and newly installed Vichy government officials circling closer with each passing day. The chateau 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 chateau's luscious facade war raged, yet hope reverberated within its halls. With the aid of their young rescuers, this diverse intelligentsia - intense, brilliant, and utterly terrified - was able to survive one of the darkest chapters of the twentieth century." "Villa Air-Bel is a powerfully told, meticulously researched true story. Rosemary Sullivan explores the diaries, memoirs, and letters of the individuals involved while uncovering their private worlds and the web of relationships they developed."--BOOK JACKET.
610 20 $aVilla Air-Bel (Marseille, France)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2006003797
650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$zFrance$zMarseille.
650 0 $aEscapes$zFrance$zMarseille.
650 0 $aRescues$zFrance$zMarseille.
651 0 $aFrance$xHistory$yGerman occupation, 1940-1945.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051418
650 0 $aArtists$xHomes and haunts$zFrance$zMarseille.
650 0 $aIntellectuals$xHomes and haunts$zFrance$zMarseille.
651 0 $aMarseille (France)$xHistory.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008115819
752 $aUnited States$bNew York (State).$2naf
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