Priscilla - The Hidden Life of an Englishwoman in Wartime France

The astonishing true story of a young woman's adventures, and misadventures, in the dangerous world of Nazi-occupied France.For Priscilla, pre-war Paris was an exciting carousel of suitors, soirees and heartbreak, and eventually a lavish wedding to a French aristocrat.But the arrival of the Nazi tanks signalled the end of life as a Vicomtesse, and the beginning of a precarious existence under German Occupation. Over half a century later, her nephew, Nicholas Shakespeare, found a box of Priscilla's notebooks and journals. He began investigating the rumours that she had escaped a prisoner-of-war camp and fought for the Resistance - and he finally unearthed the truth behind suspicions of disreputable love affairs and far darker secrets.

Product details

• Authors: Nicholas Shakespeare
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.07.2014
• EAN: 9780099555667
• ISBN: 978-0-09-955566-7
• No. of pages: 464
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 34 mm
• Series: VINTAGE BOOKS
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Europe, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political, Biography: historical, political & military, HISTORY / Military / World War II, HISTORY / Holocaust, REFERENCE / Genealogy & Heraldry, Second World War, The Holocaust, c 1940 to c 1949, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), Biography: historical, political and military