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Item Information       Table of Contents     More Content     More by this author     Shakespeare, Nicholas, 1957-     Subjects     Mais, Priscilla, 1916-1982.     Shakespeare, Nicholas, 1957- -- Family.     World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- France -- Biography.     World War, 1939-1945 -- Collaborationists -- France -- Biography.     Women -- England -- Biography     France -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945 -- Collaborationists -- Biography.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Shakespeare, Nicholas, 1957-       by title:      Priscilla : the hidd...       by call number:      944.0816 M231s     Search the Web     Shakespeare, Nicholas, 1957-     Mais, Priscilla, 1916-1982.     Shakespeare, Nicholas, 1957- -- Family.     World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- France -- Biography.     World War, 1939-1945 -- Collaborationists -- France -- Biography.     Women -- England -- Biography     France -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945 -- Collaborationists -- Biography.       MARC Display

Priscilla : the hidden life of an Englishwoman in wartime France / Nicholas Shakespeare. by Shakespeare, Nicholas, 1957- Harper, 2014. Call #: 944.0816 M231s Subjects Mais, Priscilla, 1916-1982.   Shakespeare, Nicholas, 1957- -- Family.   World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- France -- Biography.   World War, 1939-1945 -- Collaborationists -- France -- Biography.   Women -- England -- Biography   France -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945 -- Collaborationists -- Biography. ISBN:  9780062297037 (hc.) 0062297031 (hc.) Edition:  1st U.S. ed. Description:  423 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (pages 413-423). Summary:  When British British novelist and biographer Nicholas Shakespeare stumbled across a box of documents belonging to his late aunt, the mysterious Vicomtesse Priscilla Doynel de la Sausserie, also called Priscilla Mais, and sometimes Simone Vernier, he was completely unaware of where this discovery would take him and what he would learn about her hidden past. The glamorous, mysterious figure he remembered from his childhood was very different from the morally ambiguous young woman who emerged from the trove of love letters, photographs, and journals, surrounded by suitors and living the dangerous existence of a British woman in a country controlled by the enemy. He had heard rumors that Priscilla had fought in the Resistance, but the truth was far more complicated. Priscilla had had many lovers, and among them were senior members of the French and German Gestapo, including Otto Graebener, a high-ranking Nazi official who bought art for G©œring and "plundered most of France." As he investigated his aunt's life, dark secrets emerged. What caused the breakdown of Priscilla's marriage to a French aristocrat? Why had she been interned in a prisoner-of-war camp, and how had she escaped? And who was the "Otto" with whom she was having a relationship as Paris was liberated? Piecing together fragments of one woman's remarkable and tragic life, this is a loving portrait of a flawed woman trying to survive in terrible times. Nicholas Shakespeare's novels include The Vision of Elena Silves and The Dancer Upstairs. Genre:  Biographies. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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