The hotel on Place Vendôme : life, death, and betrayal at the Hôtel Ritz in Paris
Tilar J. Mazzeo (Author)
"Set against the backdrop of the Nazi occupation of World War II, [this book examines the] history of Paris's world-famous Hôtel Ritz, a ... tale of glamour, opulence, and celebrity; dangerous liaisons, espionage, and resistance"--Amazon.com
History
xxii, 292 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780061791086, 9780062323347, 9780061791048, 0061791083, 0062323342, 0061791040
850180311
The Hôtel Ritz, the mirror of Paris
This Switzerland in Paris : June 1940
All the talk of Paris : June 1, 1898
Dogfight above the Place Vendôme : July 27, 1917
Diamonds as big as the Ritz : September 1, 1940
The Americans drifting to Paris : 1944
The French actress and her Nazi lover
The Jewish bartender and the German Resistance
The American wife and the Swiss director
The German general and the fate of Paris
The press corps and the race to Paris
Ernest Hemingway and the Ritz liberated
Those dame reporters : August 26, 1944
The last trains from Paris
Coco's war and other dirty linen
The blond bombshell and the nuclear scientists
From Berlin with love and last battles in Paris : 1945
Waning powers in Paris : June 1951
The war's long shadow : May 29, 1969