The Man Who Lived at the Ritz by A.E. Hotchner

'Philip Weber met Hermann Goering for the first time in the small elevator on the Vendôme side of the Ritz.' Philip is an American art historian who has been living at the Paris Ritz for eleven years when the Germans occupy Paris in June, 1940. His peaceful lifestyle, befriended by the rich and famous-Charles Lindbergh, Ernest Hemingway, Scott Fitzgerald, Coco Chanel, Charley Ritz, the artist Man Ray - is suddenly shattered, and he is drawn into Goering's devious plots to secure for himself the great art collections of Parisian Jews: 'I am the Medici of the Third Reich. I am the last Renaissance man and the world will profit from me.' As his relation-ship with Goering becomes increasingly complex, he learns too much about the Reichsmarschall's morphine addiction, his sadism, his mastery of the equally ambitious Goebbels-and even of Hitler himself.

 A foreigner trapped in someone else's war, Philip is divided in loyalties and caught in an inextricable dilemma - should he follow the woman he loves and join the Resistance, or should he maintain his comfortable haven at the Ritz?

 The Man Who Lived at the Ritz is a novel of sophisticated intrigue, capturing the drama of those dangerous times with an expertly interwoven background of fact and fiction.

Format: Hardcover

Condition: Good. Covers show light (AGE) shelf wear. Pages are clean, intact and fully readable.

(Well cared for, some minor wear but still in good condition)