WHEN PARIS WENT DARK is a spellbinding and revealing chronicle of Nazi-occupied Paris and evokes with stunning precision the detail of daily life in a city under occupation. The book has already received fantastic praise—including this enthusiastic endorsement from our own Stacy Schiff:

“A riveting account of one of the most resonant hostage-takings in history: the 1,500 days when a swastika flew from the Eiffel Tower. Ron Rosbottom illuminates every corner of a darkened, heartsick city, exploring the oddities, capturing the grisly humor, and weighing the prices of resistance, accommodation, collaboration. The result is an intimate, sweeping narrative, astute in its insight and chilling in its rich detail.” —Stacy Schiff, author of Cleopatra, A Great Improvisation, and Véra


Relying on a range of resources-memoirs, diaries, letters, archives, interviews, personal histories, flyers and posters, fiction, photographs, film and newly made available historical studies-Rosbottom has forged a groundbreaking narrative that focuses on the under-told experiences of living under Nazi occupation.

WHEN PARIS WENT DARK chronicles the resistance of everyday Parisians of all stripes—police officers, teachers, students, and store owners-- as well as the involvement of some of the city’s most glamorous residents, including Colette, Camus, de Beauvoir, Picasso, Duras, and Sartre.

The book will include 32 black and white images run in with the text and three maps. 

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kontakt:

Renata Paczewska

renata@literatura.com.pl