Avenue of spies : a true story of terror, espionage, and one American family's heroic resistance in Nazi-occupied France
(Large Print)
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Published
New York : Random House Large Print, [2015].
Format
Large Print
ISBN
9780804194853, 0804194858
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Location | Call Number | Status |
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Gardner Levi Heywood Memorial Library - Nonfiction | LARG PRT 940.5344/KERS | Available |
Lunenburg Public Library - Large Print | LARGE PRINT 940.53 KER | Available |
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Published
New York : Random House Large Print, [2015].
Physical Desc
x, 426 pages (large print) : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
ISBN
9780804194853, 0804194858
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-395) and index.
Description
The true story of an American doctor and his family in Paris, and his heroic espionage efforts during World War II. Exclusive Avenue Foch was Paris's hotbed of spies, secret police, informers, and Vichy collaborators. So when the couple at number 11--American physician Sumner Jackson and his Swiss-born wife Toquette--joined the French resistance, they knew the stakes were extraordinarily high. They would be risking not only their own lives but that of their only child, twelve-year-old Phillip. Toquette agreed to allow the Goelette network of the resistance to use their home as a drop box for vital information en route to Britain. As D-Day neared, the noose began to tighten.
Subjects
LC Subjects
Americans -- France -- Paris -- Biography.
Espionage -- France -- Paris.
France -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945.
Jackson, Sumner Waldron -- Family.
Jackson, Sumner Waldron.
Large type books.
Paris (France) -- History, Military -- 20th century.
Physicians -- France -- Paris -- Biography.
Spies -- France -- Paris -- Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 -- France -- Paris.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- France -- Paris.
Espionage -- France -- Paris.
France -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945.
Jackson, Sumner Waldron -- Family.
Jackson, Sumner Waldron.
Large type books.
Paris (France) -- History, Military -- 20th century.
Physicians -- France -- Paris -- Biography.
Spies -- France -- Paris -- Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 -- France -- Paris.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- France -- Paris.
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