Wine and War: The French, the Nazis, and France's Greatest Treasure

Wine and War: The French, the Nazis, and France's Greatest Treasure by Don & Petie Kladstrup


Authors
Don &
Petie Kladstrup
ISBN
9780340766781
Published
Released
01 / 03 / 2010
Binding
Paperback
Pages
336
Dimensions
163 x 197 x 23mm

Wine and war combine in this remarkable untold story of France's courageous, clever vintners, who protected and rescued the country's most treasured commodity from German plunder during the Second World War.

In 1940 France fell to the Nazis, and the German army almost immediately began a campaign of pillaging one of the assets the French hold most dear: their wine. 'Wine & War' tells the alternately thrilling and harrowing story of the French wine producers who undertook ingenious and often daring measures to save their finest and most precious crops and bottles as the Germans closed in on them.

Five prominent wine-making families from France's key wine-producing families of Burgundy, Alsace, the Loire Valley, Bordeaux, and Champagne, allowed Don and Petie Kladstrup to tell their stories in a way that vividly illustrates how men and women risked their lives for a cause that meant saving the heart and soul of France as much as protecting an economy.
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