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Best books on Wartime Paris

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“All these books have a bearing on the whole of France during the occupation and beyond, but the focus is Paris.” —Anna Sebba, author of the award-winning Les Parisiennes: How the Women of Paris Lived, Loved and Died in the 1940s. 

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    A Train in Winter: A Story of Resistance, Friendship and Survival in Auschwitz
    by Caroline Moorehead

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    Between Silk and Cyanide
    by Leo Marks

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    Suite Francaise
    by Irene Nemirovsky

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    And The Show Went On
    by Alan Riding

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    Eleven Days in August: The Liberation of Paris in 1944
    by Matthew Cobb

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