The Hotel on Place Vendome: Life, Death, and Betrayal at the Hotel Ritz in Paris
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| Rating | : | 4.82 (515 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00DB32R18 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 196 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-05-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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A factually and stylistically inept book. Drew Odom This book is not only filled with factual errors; it is very badly written in a style that combines gossip column chattiness with the breezy excitement of a naive, first year journalism student. It seems never to have been proof read by anyone. It is offensive to the history it purportedly means to represent. A book this badly written and factually cumbersome and inaccurate is a moral disgrace. I will quote on. A Reprint of "Much Ado About Nothing" This is the most poorly written and superficial "history" book that I have ever read. It is so full of factual errors that it is almost impossible to absorb them, and the author makes statements throughout the book which have no truth whatsoever. They are far too numerous to mention, but a few of them include her statement that the American Assimilated Colonel Fred Wardenburg was called away from a hotel in Wa. Gossip and errors do not make history Marianne Rosenberg So many errors, inaccuracies and speculation make this book an exercise in gossipy historical novel writing but most certainly not a history book. Dates and facts are just dead wrong (an easy but by no means only example is Hemingway's death in Key West when most people --other than the author and her editor -- known that is was in Idaho).The chapter on my father's actions during the Liberation of Paris is ful
5 (2011), Mazzeo’s latest threads a great many strands—stories of a war, a people, a city, a time and place—through a single bead: Paris’ Hotel Ritz. Friends and lovers abound, and all but the worst villains are showed multidimensionally, as Mazzeo contemplates the Ritz, Paris, and Europe in flux. Amid chilling tales of the terrible ambiguities of war and the treatment and purging of enemies on all sides, Mazzeo offers lightness in her biography of an inarguably dark time through obvious care for her subjects. --Annie Bostrom . In a narrative style, Mazzeo holds a dizzying cast of persons of interest under glass as they sleep and work, meet and seek refuge in the then-Swiss-owned hotel, beginning with its grand Belle Epoque opening and focusing mainly on WWII and Paris’ German occupati
Set against the backdrop of the Nazi occupation of World War II, The Hôtel on Place Vendôme is the captivating history of Paris’s world-famous Hôtel Ritz—a breathtaking tale of glamour, opulence, and celebrity; dangerous liaisons, espionage, and resistance—from Tilar J. Mazzeo, the New York Times bestselling author of The Widow Clicquot and The Secret of Chanel No. At its center, The Hotel on Place Vendôme is an extraordinary chronicle of life at the Ritz during wartime, when the Hôtel was simultane