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National Book Foundation > Author > Ronald C. Rosbottom
Ronald Rosbottom holds the Winifred Arms Professorship in the Arts and Humanities at Amherst College. In 2014, he published When Paris Went Dark: The City of Light Under German Occupation 1940-1944, which was Longlisted for the National Book Award. He is working on a new book on how adolescents confronted the German Occupation of Paris, to be published by William Morrow. More about this author >
Relying on a range of resources--memoirs, diaries, letters, archives, interviews, personal histories, flyers and posters, fiction, photographs, film and historical studies-- When Paris Went Dark evokes the detail of daily life in a city under occupation and the brave people who fought against the darkness. More about this book >
Ronald Rosbottom holds the Winifred Arms Professorship in the Arts and Humanities at Amherst College. In 2014, he published When Paris Went Dark: The City of Light Under German Occupation 1940-1944, which was Longlisted for the National Book Award. He is working on a new book on how adolescents confronted the German Occupation of Paris, to be published by William Morrow.