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Avenue of spies : a true story of terror, espionage, and one American family's heroic resistance in Nazi-occupied France

Avenue of spies : a true story of terror, espionage, and one American family's heroic resistance in Nazi-occupied France

Kershaw, Alex.
Large Print 2015

The true story of an American doctor and his family in Paris, and his heroic espionage efforts during World War II. Exclusive Avenue Foch was Paris's hotbed of spies, secret police, informers, and Vichy collaborators. So when the couple at number 11, American physician Sumner Jackson and his Swiss-born wife Toquette, joined the French resistance, they knew the stakes were extraordinarily high. They would be risking not only their own lives but th...

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Americans France Paris Biography
Espionage France Paris
France History German occupation, 1940-1945
Jackson, Sumner Waldron
Jackson, Sumner Waldron Family
Paris (France) History, Military 20th century
Physicians France Paris Biography
Spies France Paris Biography
World War, 1939-1945 France Paris
World War, 1939-1945 Underground movements France Paris
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ISBN:
9780804194853
0804194858
Edition:
Large Print edition
Description:
x, 426 pages, 8 unnumbered page of plates (large print) : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
large print
Other Title:
Avenue of spies : a true story of terror, espionage, and one American family's heroic resistance in Nazi-occupied Paris
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-395) and index
Contents:
City of darkness. The fall ; To save France ; The fourteenth ; Day trippers ; Spies of summer ; Winged victory
Armies of the night. On doctor's orders ; Avenue Boche ; The shadow game ; Number 11 ; The last summer ; The last metro
Night and fog. Guests of the Reich ; The Coup : July 20, 1944 ; Ave Maria ; Days of glory ; Night and fog ; Neuengamme ; Deliverance
After the fall. One day in May ; His Majesty's service ; Justice ; Les Invalides
Control Number:
2852028
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