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008 150228s2014 nyua b 001 0 eng d
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020 $a9780061791086 (hardcover)
020 $a0061791083 (hardcover)
020 $z9780062323347 (international edition)
020 $a0062323342 (international edition)
020 $a9780062323347 (international edition)
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050 00 $aTX941.R5$bM39 2014
082 04 $a647.94443/601$223
100 1 $aMazzeo, Tilar J.,$eauthor.
245 14 $aThe hotel on Place Vendôme :$blife, death, and betrayal at the Hôtel Ritz in Paris /$cTilar J. Mazzeo.
250 $aFirst edition.
264 1 $aNew York, NY :$bHarper,$c[2014]
300 $axxii, 292 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 243-276) 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, 1969.
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.
520 $aTaking 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.
610 20 $aRitz Hotel (Paris, France)$xHistory.
651 0 $aFrance$xHistory$yGerman occupation, 1940-1945.
610 27 $aRitz Hotel (Paris, France)$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00576052
611 27 $aGerman Occupation of France (1940-1945)$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01353176
651 7 $aFrance.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01204289
648 7 $a1940 - 1945$2fast
655 7 $aHistory.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01411628