Table of Contents
Cast of Characters xiii
Prologue: The Hotel Ritz, the Mirror of Paris 1
1 This Switzerland in Paris: June 1940 7
2 All the Talk of Paris: June 1, 1898 23
3 Dogfight above the Place Vendome: July 27, 1917 39
4 Diamonds as Big as the Ritz: September 1, 1940 49
5 The Americans Drifting to Paris: 1944 61
6 The French Actress and Her Nazi Lover 75
7 The Jewish Bartender and the German Resistance 87
8 The American Wife and the Swiss Director 103
9 The German General and the Fate of Paris 115
10 The Press Corps and the Race to Paris 123
11 Ernest Hemingway and the Ritz Liberated 139
12 Those Dame Reporters: August 26, 1944 151
13 The Last Trains from Paris 163
14 Coco's War and Other Dirty Linen 175
15 The Blond Bombshell and the Nuclear Scientists 195
16 From Berlin with Love and Last Battles in Paris: 1945 205
17 Waning Powers in Paris: June 1951 217
18 The War's Long Shadow: May 29, 1969 227
Afterword 235
Acknowledgments 239
Notes 243
Selected Bibliography 267
Photography Credits 277
Index 279