Les Parisiennes: Resistance, Collaboration, and the Women of Paris Under Nazi Occupation

Author:	Sebba, Anne
Binding:	Paperback
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ISBN:	9781250136015
Publisher:	St. Martin's Griffin
Language:	English
Page Count:	457
Publication Date:	10/1/2016
Size:	9.09" l x 5.95" w x 1.24"
Series:	N/A

Category	Subject
Biography & Autobiography	Historical
History & Geography	Europe
Biography & Autobiography	Military

In Les Parisiennes, New York Times bestselling author Anne Sebba explores a devastating period in Paris's history and tells the stories of how women survived - or didn’t - during the Nazi occupation.

Paris in the 1940s was a place of fear, power, aggression, courage, deprivation, and secrets. During the occupation, the swastika flew from the Eiffel Tower and danger lurked on every corner. While Parisian men were either fighting at the front or captured and forced to work in German factories, the women of Paris were left behind where they would come face to face with the German conquerors on a daily basis, as waitresses, shop assistants, or wives and mothers, increasingly desperate to find food to feed their families as hunger became part of everyday life.

When the Nazis and the puppet Vichy regime began rounding up Jews to ship east to concentration camps, the full horror of the war was brought home and the choice between collaboration and resistance became unavoidable. Sebba focuses on the role of women, many of whom faced life and death decisions every day. After the war ended, there would be a fierce settling of accounts between those who made peace with or, worse, helped the occupiers and those who fought the Nazis in any way they could.