As European capitals fell during 1940 and 1941, diplomats, generals, Gestapo spies, and demimondaines from all over Europe swarmed to the Athene Palace, Bucharest's Grand Hotel. Arriving at the crowded Athene Palace on the day Paris fell in 1940, the American journalist Rosa Goldschmidt Waldeck watched, for the seven months, all the events and the international figures that made Romania Europe's last sensational hotbed of intrigue and color.
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As European capitals fell during 1940 and 1941, diplomats, generals, Gestapo spies, and demimondaines from all over Europe swarmed to the Athene Palace, Bucharest's Grand Hotel. Arriving at the crowded Athene Palace on the day Paris fell in 1940, the American journalist Rosa Goldschmidt Waldeck watched, for the seven months, all the events and the international figures that made Romania Europe's last sensational hotbed of intrigue and color.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Hardcover Cloth 304 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Very Good. Presumed First edition 1998. Handsome black boards and gilt embossing shows off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Book Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition. Slight shelf wear. Sewn in ribbon. An unclipped dust jacket smooth and brilliant with slight shelf wear-a few stains, wrinkles and chips. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy. A book of journalistic memoirs about the second half of the terrible year 1940 in the history of Romania, the author being a witness to the defining events of that year from the rooms, the halls and from the windows of the Athene Palace hotel, in the center of Bucharest. As European capitals fell during 1940 and 1941, there swarmed to the Athene Palace, Bucharest's "Grand Hotel, " diplomats, generals, Gestapo spies, and demi-mondaines from all over Europe. Arriving at the crowded Athene Palace on the day Paris fell in 1940, the American journalist Rosa Goldschmidt Waldeck watched for the seven months following all the events and international figures that made Romania Europe's last sensational hotbed of intrigue and color. For history enthusiasts, in general, and the history of Romania, in particular, this volume represents a golden opportunity to see Romania in 1940 through the eyes of a foreigner, a witness as objective as possible, all wrapped up in a high-class historical and journalistic narrative.
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Fine in Near Fine jacket. Liii, 304 pp with photo plates. Inrtro by Ernest H. Latham. Famous Athene Palace and its history in Bucharest, Romania especially during Nazi occupation. Map of Romania in 1940.
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Very good. National Travel Club. Bound in black cloth with gilt lettering on spine and gilt NTC symbol on front cover.357 pgs. Pages clean. Slight wear on spine edges and back cover. Tight binding. Foxing on page edges. A portrait of Bucharest's Grand Hotel in the turbulence of 1940-41.
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Very Good in Good+ dust jacket; Ink front endpaper and title page. Jacket spine darkened, edges yellowed. A portrait of Bucharest's Grand Hotel in the turbulence of 1940-41.; 8vo; 357 pages.