Hotel Exile

Name: Hotel Exile
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ISBN: 9780241679630

Paris in the Shadow of War

Jane Rogoyska

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English

Allen Lane
26 March 2026

History; European history; Social & cultural history; Second World War; Political science & theory; Military intelligence

How life was lived in one of Paris's great hotels, before, during and after the Second World War

The Hotel Lutetia is a Paris institution, the only 'grand' hotel on the city's bohemian Left Bank. Ever since it opened, it has served as a meeting place for artists, musicians and politicians. Andre Gide took his lunch here, James Joyce lived in one of its rooms, Picasso and Matisse were regular guests. It has a darker history, too. During one short period, it became a focus for some of the most dramatic and terrible events in recent history.

In the 1930s the Hotel Lutetia attracted intellectuals and political activists, forced to flee their homes when Hitler came to power, who met here with the hope of forming an alternative government. But when war came, Paris was occupied, and the hotel became the headquarters of the German military intelligence service - and the centre of their operation to root out enemies of the Reich. In 1945, the Lutetia was requisitioned once more, this time transformed into a reception centre for deportees returning from concentration camps.

Hotel Exile is about what happens on the edges of a war. At its heart are three groups of people connected to a place, to one another, and to the dark ideology which dictates the course of their lives. A masterpiece of empathy and concision, Jane Rogoyska's extraordinary new book offers us a vision of individual human beings desperately trying to find a path through some of the twentieth century's most devastating events.

By: Jane Rogoyska
Imprint: Allen Lane
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 242mm, Width: 165mm, Spine: 35mm
Weight: 570g
ISBN: 9780241679630
ISBN 10: 024167963X
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 26 March 2026
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Jane Rogoyska is the author of Surviving Katyn- Stalin's Polish Massacre and the Search for Truth, Gerda Taro- Inventing Robert Capa and the novel Kozlowski.

Reviews for Hotel Exile: Paris in the Shadow of War

Hotel Exile is an extraordinary account of a Parisian institution which became a stage set for the terror, tension and triumph of the Second World War. Its staff and guests are thrilling players in an utterly compelling account that sheds important new light on a seemingly familiar episode of modern history -- Richard Ovenden