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Random House
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
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Nicholas Morath, a lieutenant of the Hungarian cavalry in the First World War, moves to Paris in 1938 where he runs an advertising agency and socializes in the circles of his Argentine mistress, but he is slowly drawn from his elegant existence when he agrees to gather intelligence for his uncle who is working to keep Hungary from becoming allied with Nazi Germany.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Paris, 1941. The City of Light, occupied by the Nazis, is dark and silent at night. Streetlamps are painted blue and apartment windows draped or shuttered in the blackout ordered by the Germans. But when the clouds part, the silvery moonlight defies authority, and so does a leader of the French Resistance, known as Mathieu. In Paris and in the farmhouses, barns, and churches of the French countryside, small groups of ordinary men and women are determined...
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Paris, 1940. The civilized, upper-class life of film producer Jean Casson is derailed by the German occupation of Paris, but Casson learns that with enough money, compromise, and connections, one need not deny oneself the pleasures of Parisian life. Somewhere inside Casson, though, is a stubborn romantic streak. When he's offered the chance to take part in an operation of the British secret service, this idealism gives him the courage to say yes....
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