Life, Death, and Betrayal at the Hotel Ritz in Paris
by Tilar J. Mazzeo
Recommended by Meghan Markle and Heidi N. Moore
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in History and Nonfiction.
Set against the backdrop of the Nazi occupation of World War II, the captivating history of Paris's worldfamous Hôtel Ritza breathtaking tale of glamour, opulence, and celebrity; dangerous liaisons, espionage, and resistancefrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Widow Clicquot and The Secret of Chanel No. 5Established in 1898 in the h...
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in History and Nonfiction.
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Meghan Markle
“And please read The Hotel on Place Vendome. It’s a welltold, wry tale that both admired and skewers its famous subjects and is absolutely unstinting in the clearest, grimmest details of what Paris was like during the Nazi Occupation.”
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Consider Accidental Presidents by Jared Cohen. Recommended by 10 sources.
“Accidental Presidents offers eight narrative portraits of men who succeeded to the U.S. presidency without election, using anecdote-rich scenes and readable context to show how personality and circumstance interact with office power. It’s strongest as a set of self-contained stories that make succession stakes concrete for non-specialist readers; it does not prioritize dense archival argument or exhaustive methodology, so expect some interpretive generalizations and repeated themes across cases. Use it for fast historical orientation rather than scholarly deep-dives.”
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