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Author Marino, Andy.

Title A quiet American : the secret war of Varian Fry / Andy Marino.

Imprint New York : St. Martin's Press, 1999.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Special Collections Whitehead  940.531835 F947Bm 1999    ---  Lib Use Only
Edition 1st ed.
Description xi, 403 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-379) and index.
Contents The Little Prince -- Berolina -- Don't Be a Goop -- Sign of the Times -- Some Call It War -- The Accidental Tourist -- Exiles -- On the Road -- A Cold Mecca -- Pagaille -- The Secret City -- The Secret City -- An American in Marseille -- Irreversible -- Trouble -- Going Underground -- Friends -- Ursula -- The Fall -- Happy Birthday, Varian -- That Sinking Feeling -- The Turning Year -- Enemies -- The Friend -- Full Steam Ahead -- Betrayals -- Fugitive Fry -- The Homecoming.
Summary Varian Fry, an American war correspondent, set up a secret refuge escape system in Marseilles to get leading artists and intellectuals out of occupied France.
Subject Fry, Varian, 1907-1967.
Fry, Varian, 1907-1967 (OCoLC)fst00055011
Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust -- France -- Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue -- France.
War correspondents -- United States -- Biography.
Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust. (OCoLC)fst01097945
War correspondents. (OCoLC)fst01170456
France. (OCoLC)fst01204289
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Jews rescue (World War) (1939-1945) (OCoLC)fst01710189
World War (1939-1945) (OCoLC)fst01180924
Chronological Term 1939-1945
Genre/Form Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
Biographies.
ISBN 031220356X
9780312203566
0312267673
9780312267674

 
    
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