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Villa Air-Bel
Rosemary Sullivan
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Description for Villa Air-Bel
Paperback. The remarkable true story of some of Europe's greatest artists, the house that sheltered them during the Second World War, and the Emergency Rescue Committee who helped them escape from the Nazis Num Pages: 496 pages, integrated. BIC Classification: BGH; BTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 200 x 28. Weight in Grams: 360.
The Franco-German armistice, signed in June 1940 following the German invasion of France, called on the Vichy government to surrender on demand all refugees considered enemies of the Third Reich. Suddenly, thousands of artists, scientists and other intellectuals feared for their lives. The Emergency Rescue Committee, based in New York, compiled a list of two hundred people it considered the most endangered, including artists and writers André Breton, Max Ernst and Benjamin Péret. The committee sent Varian Fry to set up its headquarters in Marseilles, with the aim of helping these artists to escape. A number of them were sheltered ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton General Division United Kingdom
Number of pages
496
Condition
New
Number of Pages
496
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719566943
SKU
V9780719566943
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99-10
About Rosemary Sullivan
Rosemary Sullivan was born in Montreal and has studied in Canada, the US and England. She currently teaches at the University of Toronto and is the author of ten books, comprising poetry, biography, literary criticism and literary journalism.
Reviews for Villa Air-Bel
'Rosemary Sullivan knows that you can understand nothing about a place without listening to individual people and their stories'
Margaret Atwood
'Rosemary Sullivan's Villa Air-Bel is a marvellous addition to the surging literature on occupied France. Sullivan writes . . . as a dramatist. Her scene-by-scene evocation of life at the house reads like an updated Chekhov comedy ... Read more
Margaret Atwood
'Rosemary Sullivan's Villa Air-Bel is a marvellous addition to the surging literature on occupied France. Sullivan writes . . . as a dramatist. Her scene-by-scene evocation of life at the house reads like an updated Chekhov comedy ... Read more