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Spring 1941. Britain is losing the war. But the fighters of the French Resistance are determined not to give up. These courageous men and women – young and old, aristocrats and nightclub owners, teachers and military heroes – run an escape line for British airmen down to Spain. In Rouen and Orleans, in secret hotels, and on the streets, they prise open Europe’s sealed doors to lead British fighters to freedom.
From libertine nightclubs in Paris to shady bars by the docks in Gdansk, Alan Furst paints a spell-binding portrait of a continent marching into the nightmare of WWII – and the heroes and heroines who fought back.
Let Alan Furst take you on a journey through the cobbled streets and smoky salons of pre-war Europe as the continent stands on the brink.
Frederic Stahl, born of Viennese intelligentsia, ran away to sea at 17. Arriving in America, his matinee idol looks took him to Hollywood, & a life of movies & women. Soon after war breaks out in Europe, he goes to Paris to shoot a film. He is soon drawn into a clandestine world of foreign correspondents, exiled Spanish republicans, & spies.
Frederic Stahl, born of Viennese intelligentsia, ran away to sea at 17. Arriving in America, his matinee idol looks took him to Hollywood, & a life of movies & women. Soon after war breaks out in Europe, he goes to Paris to shoot a film. He is soon drawn into a clandestine world of foreign correspondents, exiled Spanish republicans, & spies.
‘The Foreign Correspondent’ is the story of a secret war, fought in elegant hotel bars and first-class railway cars, in the mountains of Spain and the back alleys of Berlin. It is a saga of everyday people, whose passion forces them to fight a war against tyranny.
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