CONTENTS

       COVER

       TITLE PAGE

       COPYRIGHT

       DEDICATION

      INTRODUCTION

      PART ONE: 14 June 1940

      1 The American Mayor of Paris

      2 The Bookseller

      3 The Countess from Ohio

      4 All Blood Runs Red

      5 Le Millionnaire américain

      6 The Yankee Doctor

      PART TWO: 1940

      7 Bookshop Row

      8 Americans at Vichy

      9 Back to Paris

      10 In Love with Love

      11 A French Prisoner with the Americans

      12 American Grandees

      13 Polly’s Paris

      14 Rugged Individualists

      15 Germany’s Confidential American Agent

      PART THREE: 1941

      16 The Coldest Winter

      17 Time to Go?

      18 New Perils in Paris

      19 Utopia in Les Landes

      20 To Resist, to Collaborate or to Endure

      21 Enemy Aliens

      PART FOUR: 1942

      22 First Round-up

      23 The Vichy Web

      24 The Second Round-up

      25 ‘Inturned’

      26 Uniting Africa

      27 Americans Go to War

      28 Murphy Forgets a Friend

      29 Alone at Vittel

      30 The Bedaux Dossier

      PART FIVE: 1943

      31 Murphy versus Bedaux

      32 Sylvia’s War

      33 German Agents?

      34 A Hospital at War

      35 The Adolescent Spy

      36 Clara under Suspicion

      37 Calumnies

      PART SIX: 1944

      38 The Trial of Citizen Bedaux

      39 The Underground Railway

      40 Conspiracies

      41 Springtime in Paris

      42 The Maquis to Arms!

      43 Résistants Unmasked

      44 Via Dolorosa

      45 Schwarze Kappelle

      46 Slaves of the Reich

      47 One Family Now

      48 The Paris Front

      49 Tout Mourir

      PART SEVEN: 24–26 August 1944

      50 Liberating the Rooftops

      51 Libération, not Liberation

      EPILOGUE

      ENDNOTES

      ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

      SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

      INDEX

      BY THE SAME AUTHOR

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       INTRODUCTION

      IN THE PLAZA WHERE THE Boulevard Saint-Michel approaches the River Seine, water cascades down stone blocks of a vast monumental tribute to those who endured the four-year German occupation of Paris. The Archangel Michael stands guard above an old memorial that was rededicated after the Second World War, above all, to the civilians killed nearby when the people of Paris finally rose against their oppressors in the summer of 1944. Reading the inscriptions and looking at the stone lions beside the shallow pool, I used to imagine life during the fifty months from 14 June 1940, when the Germans marched proudly into Paris, and 25 August 1944, when they retreated in shame. I wondered how I would have behaved while the Wehrmacht ruled the cultural capital of Europe. Many books and films on the period depicted French behaviour that varied from self-sacrifice and heroism to treason and complicity in genocide. But what would I, as an American, have done? Was it possible to survive until liberation day, 26 August 1944, without compromising or collaborating? Would I have risked my life, or the lives of my family, by fighting for the Resistance? Or would I have waited patiently with the majority of Parisians for the German retreat?

      Nearly