And the show went on Cultural life in Nazi occupied Paris by Alan Riding
On June 14, 1940 German tanks rolled into the silent deserted Paris eight days later a humbled France accepted defeat along with foreign occupation.While the swastika now flew over Paris the city of light was undamaged and soon a particular kind of normalcy returned as theaters opera houses movie theaters and nightclubs reopened for business.Shedding light on this critical moment of the 20th century European culture history,And the show went on focus is a new on whether artists and writers have a special duty to show moral leadership and moments of national trauma.
This was a resting and the detailed account meticulously researchedAnd in vocative a carefully constructed sympathetic accountRiding is very good at pointing out the complexities and ambiguities of the situation