And the Show Went On: Cultural Life in Nazi-Occupied Paris by Alan Riding (Repost)
And the Show Went On: Cultural Life in Nazi-Occupied Paris by Alan Riding
English | Oct. 4, 2011 | ISBN: 0307268977, 0307389057 | 432 Pages | EPUB | 6.1 MB
English | Oct. 4, 2011 | ISBN: 0307268977, 0307389057 | 432 Pages | EPUB | 6.1 MB
On June 14, 1940, German tanks rolled into a silent and deserted Paris. Eight days later, a humbled France accepted defeat along with foreign occupation. While the swastika now flew over Paris, the City of Light was undamaged, and soon a peculiar kind of normalcy returned as theaters, opera houses, movie theaters, and nightclubs reopened for business. Shedding light on this critical moment of twentieth-century European cultural history, And the Show Went On focuses anew on whether artists and writers have a special duty to show moral leadership in moments of national trauma.