Mistress of the Ritz
Title
:
Mistress of the Ritz
Author
:
Benjamin, Melanie, 1962- author.
ISBN
:
9780525492740
9780525492726
Edition
:
Unabridged.
Physical Description
:
10 audio discs (approximately 12 hours) : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in.
General Note
:
Compact discs.
Personal Subject
:
Auzello, Blanche, approximately 1897-1969-Fiction.
Auzello, Claude-Fiction.
Corporate Subject
:
Ritz Hotel (Paris, France) -- Fiction.
Subject Term
:
World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- France -- Fiction.
Women spies -- Fiction.
Geographic Term
:
France -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945 -- Fiction.
Genre
:
Audiobooks.
Spy stories.
Biographical fiction.
Historical fiction.
Added Author
:
Rosenblat, Barbara
Local Subject
:
Spoken compact disc collection.
Summary
:
In March 1940, the Nazis sweep Paris and immediately take up residence in one of the city's most iconic sites: The Hotel Ritz. There, under a roof legendary for its unprecedented luxury and for its fabled residents--including Coco Chanel, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Cole Porter, Hemingway, Balanchine, Doris Duke, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and now Hermann GoÌering--the Nazis rule over a paralyzed city. But two residents of the Ritz refuse to be defeated: its director, Claude Auzello, and his beautiful American actress wife, Blanche. They not only oversee the smooth workings of the hotel, but both Blanche and Claude throw themselves fearlessly into the dangerous and clandestine workings of the French Resistance. This is a true-to-life novel of a courageous woman and her husband who put their marriage--and ultimately their lives--in jeopardy to fight for freedom. Intimate, fearless, and moving, it spins a brilliantly and unforgettably vivid human portrait at a time of unimaginable crisis and sacrifice.
Library | Call Number | Status |
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Hardwood Creek Library (Forest Lake) | SCD FICTION BEN 10 DISCS | Audiobooks Fiction |
R.H. Stafford Library (Woodbury) | SCD FICTION BEN 10 DISCS | Audiobooks Fiction |