{"product_id":"9780316217453","title":"When Paris Went Dark: The City of Light Under German Occupation, 1940-1944","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eThe spellbinding and revealing chronicle of Nazi-occupied Paris\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003eOn June 14, 1940, German tanks entered a silent and nearly deserted Paris. Eight days later, France accepted a humiliating defeat and foreign occupation. Subsequently, an eerie sense of normalcy settled over the City of Light. Many Parisians keenly adapted themselves to the situation-even allied themselves with their Nazi overlords. At the same time, amidst this darkening gloom of German ruthlessness, shortages, and curfews, a resistance arose. Parisians of all stripes-Jews, immigrants, adolescents, communists, rightists, cultural icons such as Colette, de Beauvoir, Camus and Sartre, as well as police officers, teachers, students, and store owners-rallied around a little known French military officer, Charles de Gaulle. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWHEN PARIS WENT DARK evokes with stunning precision the detail of daily life in a city under occupation, and the brave people who fought against the darkness. Relying on a range of resources---memoirs, diaries, letters, archives, interviews, personal histories, flyers and posters, fiction, photographs, film and historical studies---Rosbottom has forged a groundbreaking book that will forever influence how we understand those dark years in the City of Light.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Little, Brown and Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47120851534064,"sku":"9780316217453","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780316217453_p0.jpg?v=1769916551","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780316217453","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}