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

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

Author:Donald Kladstrup & Petie Kladstrup [Kladstrup, Donald & Kladstrup, Petie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Non-Fiction, History, World War II, Wine, France
ISBN: 9780767904483
Amazon: 0767904486
Barnesnoble: 0767904486
Publisher: Broadway Books
Published: 2002-04-28T23:00:00+00:00


The Gestapo marched through the house, searching every room, opening every armoire, pushing aside the clothes, tossing out linens, looking under beds and behind doors. When they got to the bedroom of the Drouhin daughters, they asked them where their father was. “Gone to Paris,” they answered nervously.

Then they invaded the next bedroom, where Robert was pretending to be asleep. “Where’s your father?” one of them demanded, shaking his shoulder.

Robert sat up, rubbed his eyes and looked up at the men towering above him. In a small voice, he replied, “He’s gone to Paris on business.” The Gestapo were taken aback. A sleepy little boy just awakened surely would be telling the truth, they thought. The chagrined officer jerked his head toward the door. “We’re wasting our time, let’s get out of here,” he said.



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