When Hitler's tanks rolled into Paris on June 14th 1940, the city's American residents (perhaps 5,000) were officially safe, protected by an American neutrality that was to last another 18 months. But none in Paris could remain unaffected. Some fled, either to the unoccupied zone of Vichy France or abroad. By the spring of 1941 around 2,000 had chosen to stay-and they are the subject of this engrossing book by Charles Glass. They range from Sylvia Beach (pictured right), the lesbian owner of the Shakespeare and Company bookshop on the left bank, determined to desert neither her customers nor her lover, to the courageous Dr Sumner Jackson of the American Hospital in Neuilly.
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