Aug 13, 2019
This week we're talking to Melanie Benjamin whose book, MISTRESS OF THE RITZ, recounts the story of a little-known heroine of the French Resistance in German-Occupied France. Find out more about Melanie at http://melaniebenjamin.com and follow her on Twitter over at http://twitter.com/MelanieBen, on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Melanie-Benjamin-Author/208671032480607# and go check out her new podcast over at https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/who-the-hell-are-we/id1462927166.
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Mentioned in this episode:
THE HOTEL ON PLACE VENDOME: LIFE, DEATH, AND BETRAYAL AT THE HOTEL RITZ IN PARIS by Tilar J. Mazzeo
Casablanca (Movie)
THE NIGHTINGALE by Kristin Hannah
ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE by Anthony Doerr
THE SWANS OF FIFTH AVENUE by Melanie Benjamin
Au Revoir les Enfant (Movie)
The Tattered Cover
J. K. Rowling
THE PIONEERS: THE HISTORIC STORY OF THE SETTLERS WHO BROUGHT THE AMERICAN IDEAL WEST by David McCullough
Doris Kearns Goodwin
A GENTLEMAN IN MOSCOW by Amor Towles
Paulette Jiles
Julie Otsuka
LEADING MEN by Christopher Castellani
Tennessee Williams