Lisbon: War in the Shadows of the City of Light, 1939-1945 [Audiobook] download free by Neill Lochery
- Listen audiobook: Lisbon: War in the Shadows of the City of Light, 1939-1945
- Author: Neill Lochery
- Release date: 2013/5/12
- Publisher: INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES US
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Biography
- ISBN: 9781610391887
- Rating: 8.95 of 10
- Votes: 887
- Review by: Addilyn Hitchcock
- Review rating: 9.14 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/10/1
- Duration: 4H12M17S in 256 kbps (68.8 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-30
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WMA, Apple Lossless, OPUS, MP3, WAV, FLAC, MPEG4 (compression TAR.BZ, RAR, CBC, CBZ, ZIP, TZ, AZW4)
- Total pages original book: 344
- Includes a PDF summary of 39 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 29M35S (7.8 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: Lisbon had a pivotal role in the history of World War II, though not a gun was fired there. The only European city in which both the Allies and the Axis power operated openly, it was temporary home to much of Europe's exiled royalty, over one million refugees seeking passage to the U.S., and a host of spies, secret police, captains of industry, bankers, prominent Jews, writers and artists, escaped POWs, and black marketeers. An operations officer writing in 1944 described the daily scene at Lisbon's airport as being like the movie Casablanca,' times twenty. In this riveting narrative, renowned historian Neill Lochery draws on his relationships with high-level Portuguese contacts, access to records recently uncovered from Portuguese secret police and banking archives, and other unpublished documents to offer a revelatory portrait of the War's back stage. And he tells the story of how Portugal, a relatively poor European country trying frantically to remain neutral amidst extraordinary pressures, survived the war not only physically intact but significantly wealthier. The country's emergence as a prosperous European Union nation would be financed in part, it turns out, by a cache of Nazi gold.
- Other categories, genre or collection: True Crime Books, True Crime Biographies, World War 2 Books, 20th Century History: C 1900 To C 2000, European History
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- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 17.83 USD
- Dimensions: 156x230x20mm
- Weight: 430.91g
- Printed by: PublicAffairs,U.S.
- Published in: New York, United States
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