Escape from Paris : a true story of love and resistance in wartime France
Harding, Stephen, 1952-2021
Books
'Escape from Paris' is the true story of a small group of US aviators whose four B-17 Flying Fortresses were shot down over German-occupied France on a single, fateful day: July 14th, 1943, Bastille Day. They were rescued by brave French civilians and taken to Paris for eventual escape out of France. In the French capital, where German troops walked on every street and Gestapo agents hid around every corner, the flyers met a brave Parisian resistance family living and working in the Hôtel des Invalides, a complex of buildings and military memorials, where Nazi officials had set up offices. Hidden in the complex the Americans, along with dozens of other downed Allied pilots and resistance operatives, hatched daring escape plots. The danger of discovery by the Nazis grew every day - as did an unlikely romance.
Main title:
Escape from Paris : a true story of love and resistance in wartime France / Stephen Harding.
Author:
Harding, Stephen, 1952-, author
Imprint:
London : Hachette Books, 2021.
Collation:
288 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm
Notes:
Originally published: New York: Da Capo Press, 2020.
ISBN:
9780306922152 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
940.5344940.534
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2284424