The secrets of the City of Light, revealed in the lives of the great, the near-great, and the forgotten---by the author of the acclaimed The Discovery of France.

The spellbinding and revealing chronicle of Nazi-occupied ParisOn June 14, 1940, German tanks entered a silent and nearly deserted Paris. Eight days later, France accepted a humiliating defeat and foreign occupation. Subsequently, an ...

"Anne Sebba has the nearly miraculous gift of combining the vivid intimacy of the lives of women during The Occupation with the history of the time. This is a remarkable book." ―Edmund de Waal, New York Times bestselling a...

"Tucker writes with gusto . . . high drama."―Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review In the late 1600s, Louis XIV assigns Nicolas de la Reynie to bring order to Paris after the brutal deaths of two magistrates. Reynie, ...

17 May 1943-Thick smoke and fumes poured into the B-17 nose cone as the bailout bell began to shriek. Choking on the acrid fumes, Bud already knew what to do: OUT OF THE PLANE NOW, BUD! He grabbed his chute, snapped it on the harn...

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