Villa Air-Bel Rosemary Sullivan John Murray Publishers Ltd Αγγλικά Βιβλία History World

The Franco-German Armistice Signed In June 1940 Following German Invasion Of France Called On Vichy Government To Surrender Demand All Refugees Considered Enemies Third Reich Suddenly Thousands Artists Scientists And Other Intellectuals Feared For Their Lives Emergency Rescue Committee Based New York Compiled A List Two Hundred People It Most Endangered Including Writers André Breton Max Ernst Benjamin Péret Sent Varian Fry Set Up Its Headquarters Marseilles With Aim Helping These Escape Number Them Were Sheltered At Villa Air-Bel Amidst Chaos Terror Wartime Became An Oasis Calm Centre Creativity Rosemary Sullivan Explores Diaries Memoirs Letters Individuals Involved As She Uncovers Private Worlds Web Relationships They Developed Central Her Task Is Understand What Must Feel Like Move From Freedom Occupation: Threatened Administered Restrained Brilliantly Dramatizes Slow Relentless Process By Which Ordinary Turned Into Lived End Every Artist House Well Thousand Others Found Asylum Outside Through Courageous Intervention His Σελίδες: 496 Έτος Έκδοσης: 0101 Διαστάσεις: 12 9X12 9Cm