The remarkable untold tale of France’s courageous, clever vinters who protected and rescued the country’s most loved commodity from German plunder during World War II.
“To be a Frenchman means to fight for your country and its wine.” –Claude Terrail, owner, Restaurant La Tour d’Argent
In 1940, France fell to the Nazis and nearly immediately the German army started a campaign of pillaging one of the assets the French hold most dear: their wine. Like others in the French Resistance, winemakers mobilized to oppose their occupiers, but the tale of their extraordinary efforts has remained largely unknown–until now. This is
Price: $10.17
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In 1940, France fell to the Nazis and nearly immediately the German army started a campaign of pillaging one of the assets the French hold most dear: their wine. Like others in the French Resistance, winemakers mobilized to oppose their occupiers, but the tale of their extraordinary efforts has remained largely unknown—until now. Wine and War tells the alternately thrilling and upsetting tale of the French wine producers who undertook ingenious, daring measures to save their esteemed crops and bottles as the Germans closed in on them.
By rooting the narrative in the tales of five prominent winemaking
Price: $79.85
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