Villa Air-Bel: World War II, Escape, and a House in Marseille

by Rosemary Sullivan

Book Overview

France, 1940. The once glittering boulevards of Paris teem with spies, collaborators, and the Gestapo now that France has fallen to Hitler's Wermacht. For Andr Breton, Max Ernst, Victor Serge, Marc Chagall, Consuelo de Saint-Exup ry, Remedios Varo, Benjamin P ret, and scores of other cultural elite denounced as enemies of the Third Reich, fear and uncertainty define daily life. One wrong glance, one misplaced confidence, could mean arrest, deportation,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060732504
• ISBN13: 9780060732509
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Harper
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A Major Achievement

'Villa Air Bel' is a stunning story of endangered artists and intellectuals in pre-WW2 France. Rosemary Sullivan has masterfully juxtaposed personal histories and historical events to create an urgent and tense book. It is a riveting account of the ordeal suffered by individuals who were being hunted down by the Nazis and of the heroism of young rerscuers willing to endanger their own lives in an effort to help them escape. This book is a compelling page-turner. I couldn't put it down.