THIEVES OF PARIS - Couverture souple

Schwartz, Helen

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798527353198

Editeur : Independently published, 2021

Synopsis

When France surrenders to Germany in 1940 and Nazi forces occupy France, soldier Max St Denis flees to his childhood home, the Rothschild estate at Ferrières. Max sees a way to redeem himself from his days as a car thief when he’s entrusted to transport valuable paintings to safety, including an Ingres family portrait dear to him. Overtaken and almost killed by Nazi art looters, he vows to get the portrait back. He needs the assistance of two daring women who condemn his recklessness and self-centered motives. After he agrees to work with Rose Valland, the only French person at the Jeu de Paume depot for looted art, she locates the portrait but lays down strict conditions for stealing it. To meet those, he bargains for the aid of Hannah Ziegler, a beautiful Hungarian Zionist smuggling Jews out of Paris. He commits his wits and daring, his fluency in German, and his blond coloring to fool the occupiers. Max has watched “authorized” Nazi looters, Vichy-French officials and opportunistic French citizens vying to out-steal each other. As oppression of Jews grows and deportations begin, Max improvises new strategies of theft to save the very lives of Jews. Max embraces his role as the best thief of Paris.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798527353198
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 442
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