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• The Art Spy

  the Extraordinary Untold Tale of WWII Resistance Hero Rose Valland

  Young, Michelle (Michelle T.),

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  In the spirit of Hidden Figures, with the sweeping narrative of The Rape of Europa and the depth of The Resistance Quartet, The Art Spy is an extraordinary tale of a female hero whose courage and tenacity in a time of violence and terror is an…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Picasso's War

  How Modern Art Came to America

  Eakin, Hugh,

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  In this riveting, never-before-told story, a senior editor at Foreign Affairs brings to life the shared goal of building the greatest collection of Picassos in existence, and, in the process, saved dozens of the century's most enduring artworks from…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Göring's Man in Paris

  the Story of a Nazi Art Plunderer and His World

  Petropoulos, Jonathan,

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  Bruno Lohse (1911-2007) was one of the most notorious art plunderers in history. Appointed by Hermann Göring to Hitler's art looting agency in Paris, he went on to help supervise the systematic theft and distribution of more than thirty thousand…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Heart

  Frida Kahlo in Paris

  Petitjean, Marc,

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  Marc Petitjean takes the reader to Paris with Kahlo, where she spends her time alongside luminaries such as Pablo Picasso, André Breton, Dora Maar, and Marcel Duchamp. Using Kahlo's whirlwind romance with the author's father, Michel Petitjean, as a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Beauty of Living

  E. E. Cummings in the Great War

  Rosenblitt, J. Alison (Jennifer Alison),

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  An incisive biography of E. E. Cummings's early life explores his World War I ambulance service, which inspired his inventive poetry. Renowned for his formally fractured, gleefully alive poetry, E. E. Cummings is not often thought of as a war poet.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Madame Fourcade's Secret War

  the Daring Young Woman Who Led France's Largest Spy Network Against Hitler

  Olson, Lynne,

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  The little-known true story of Marie-Madeleine Fourcade, the woman who headed the largest spy network in occupied France during World War II. Named one of the Best Books of the Year by NPR and The Washington Post.

• Saving Mona Lisa

  the Battle to Protect the Louvre and Its Treasures From the Nazis

  Chanel, Gerri,

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  In August 1939, curators at the Louvre nestled the world's most famous painting into a special red velvet-lined case and spirited her away to the Loire Valley. So began the biggest evacuation of art and antiquities in history.

• Wartime Notebooks

  France, 1940-1944

  Bobkowski, Andrzej,

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  A Polish writer's experience of wartime France, a cosmopolitan outsider's perspective on politics, culture, and life under duress When the aspiring young writer Andrzej Bobkowski, a self-styled cosmopolitan Pole, found himself caught in occupied…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Last Hope Island

  Britain, Occupied Europe, and the Brotherhood That Helped Turn the Tide of War

  Olson, Lynne,

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  A groundbreaking account of how Britain became the base of operations for the exiled leaders of Europe in their desperate struggle to reclaim their continent from Hitler.

• My Grandfather's Gallery

  a Family Memoir of Art and War

  Sinclair, Anne,

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  Drawing on her grandfather's intimate correspondence with Picasso, Matisse, Braque and others, the author takes readers on a personal journey through the life of Paul Rosenberg, a legendary Parisian art dealer who was forced to flee Vichy France,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Priscilla

  the Hidden Life of An Englishwoman in Wartime France

  Shakespeare, Nicholas, 1957-

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  As a young boy, Shakespeare had always believed that his aunt was a member of the Resistance and had been tortured by the Germans. The truth turned out to be far more complicated. Piecing together fragments of his aunt’s remarkable and tragic story,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Diary of the Dark Years, 1940-1944

  Collaboration, Resistance, and Daily Life in Occupied Paris

  Guéhenno, Jean, 1890-1978

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  The most oft-quoted piece of testimony on life in occupied France. A sharply observed record of day-to-day life under Nazi rule in Paris and a bitter commentary on literary life in those years, it has also been called "a remarkable essay on courage…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Second World War

  Beevor, Antony, 1946-

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  The British historian and author presents a single volume history of the world's largest conflict, from Manchuria in 1939 to the Soviet invasion of northern China six years later, describing the human drama of soldiers, civilians and political…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The General : Charles De Gaulle and the France He Saved

  Fenby, Jonathan

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  Profiles the first president of the Fifth Republic, including his experiences during the World Wars, his political maneuvering that avoided a civil war, and his lasting legacy in France.

• Americans in Paris

  Life and Death Under Nazi Occupation

  Glass, Charles, 1951-

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  Analyzes the American expatriate experience in Nazi-occupied Paris, drawing on the personal writings and correspondences of a range of individuals to reveal the challenges they faced and the risks many took to support the Resistance.

• Résistance

  a Woman's Journal of Struggle and Defiance in Occupied France

  Humbert, Agnès

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  A diary by a key member of the French Resistance during the German occupation of 1940 recounts her group's betrayal to the Gestapo, her imprisonment and deportation to Germany, and the brutal treatment she and her friends endured in labor camps.

• Matisse the Master

  a Life of Henri Matisse, the Conquest of Colour, 1909-1954

  Spurling, Hilary

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  Chronicles the later years of the influential artist, interweaving analyses of his work with a study of Matisse's relationships with family and friends, trips around the world, the women in his life, and the continuing influences on the evolution of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Faustian Bargain

  the Art World in Nazi Germany

  Petropoulos, Jonathan

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  Profiles five key figures in the art world of Nazi Germany who plundered art masterpieces from museums and private collections across Europe at the behest of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich--museum director Ernst Buchner, art critic Robert Scholz, dealer…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Lost Museum

  the Nazi Conspiracy to Steal the World's Greatest Works of Art

  Feliciano, Hector

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  Drawing on recently declassified government archives and other primary sources, a journalist describes how the Nazis systematically looted some of France's most important private art collections, tracing the fate of the art and revealing the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Rape of Europa

  the Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War

  Nicholas, Lynn H.

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  From the Nazi purges of "Degenerate Art" and Goering's shopping sprees in occupied Paris to the perilous journey of the Mona Lisa from Paris and the painstaking reclamation of the priceless treasures of liberated Italy, The Rape of Europa is a…Read moreRead more of this annotation