Les Parisiennes: How the Women of Paris Lived, Loved and Died in the 1940s

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I love how the book is very complete, you are left knowing what happens to the main figures and what will become of Paris in the World War Two era.

Les Parisiennes: How the Women of Paris Lived, Loved, and

I particularly loved the stories of lesser known figures – Resistance fighters who bicycled along the Normandy coast laden with explosive materials for blowing up railways and forced to attempt small talk with German soldiers, those who ended up in the horrific Ravensbrück women’s concentration camp, and those who, when faced with an easier choice, chose to do something heroic instead. The author urges readers to consider how many of these liaisons were rape or under duress, how many were from natural human attraction and affection, and how all pale in comparison to collaboration that truly aided and abetted Nazi horrors or served unwarranted profiteering at the expense of others. The original evidence has been well pieced together, and the chronological structure, which seems perhaps obvious in such a book, serves it well.

Sebba follows the progression of the war through the years and shows how, as the situation grew more desperate for everyone, women devised and discovered a myriad of ways to cope and survive. A deduction can be made if the value of the goods has been reduced as a result of you handling the goods more than was necessary, or if the goods or packaging is damaged. Some are the few heroines we recognize from books and film who helped hide Jews or joined a Resistance network.

Les Parisiennes: How Women Of Paris Lived - HistoryExtra

Perhaps because their lives were so complicated and roles so divided, they were more able to perceive, and be at home with, ambiguity. She gathered that her star ageny, Vera Leigh, woke up and fought hard at the last and severely scratched the guard killing her. This confusion seems to have been anticipated, as the book features a glossary of names and an index.I persuaded him that I wasn’t trying to be offensive, that I was trying to put myself into the mindset of his mother and thousands of others like her.