Anne Sebba

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Anne Sebba’s compulsively fascinating book!

Sally Singer, New York Times Style Editor
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Absolutely gripping in so many ways; beautifully written and superbly researched, a brilliant and a fresh take on a famous case.

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An important retelling of Les Années Noires in Paris which puts women's stories, and the complications of their lives under Occupation, centre stage…

Kate Mosse, Author of Labyrinth
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A fascinating book I couldn’t stop reading. Anne Sebba knows everything about Paris during the War. She understands everything about the chic, loathsome collaborators and the Holocaust victims…

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    Anne is the author of ten non fiction books mostly biographies of iconic women with a strong historical context.

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So many wonderful treasures all under one roof. Th So many wonderful treasures all under one roof. Thanks @imosebba for great lunch interlude
The Holocaust memorial at the heart of Kibbutz Net The Holocaust memorial at the heart of Kibbutz Netzer Sereni, initially founded as Kibbutz Buchenwald to offer a home to concentration camp victims after World War 2. Now renamed to reflect that it’s a branch newly sprouted (a rough translation) and in recognition of the Italian socialist and Zionist intellectual, Enzo Sereni, who was parachuted into Nazi occupied Italy but captured and murdered at Dachau. Today, alongside the flourishing clementines and avocados, the kibbutz still cares for 8 camp survivors.
Wonderful and exhilarating performance by Sonya Yo Wonderful and exhilarating performance by Sonya Yoncheva as Fedora in Umberto Giordano’s rarely performed opera thanks to @metopera. Proof that the Diva is alive and well, that art can interpret passion on a grand scale. Inspiring to see this interpretation of #strongwomen
Whoever wrote this, thank you! Whoever wrote this, thank you!
Oh what a beautiful morning! For anyone who missed Oh what a beautiful morning! For anyone who missed it you’ll have another chance tomorrow!
What a hundred women having a networking breakfast What a hundred women having a networking breakfast look like. Happy and grateful to be here!
A long morning filming! Something or other Royal b A long morning filming! Something or other Royal but after three and a half hours I’m no longer sure what I was talking about! Won’t know until it airs next year but hope I made sense.
Amazing day @nationalarchivesuk with special docum Amazing day @nationalarchivesuk with special documents brought out for inspection including codicil on Nelson’s Will and the 1936 Instrument of Abdication. Nothing quite like the real thing!
Honour and privilege to give the Annual Raoul Wall Honour and privilege to give the Annual Raoul Wallenberg lecture tonight on the subject of Ethel Rosenberg. Thanks to such a wonderful audience.
Thanks to everyone who has written following my ar Thanks to everyone who has written following my article in yesterday’s @financialtimes travel asking for further details. It’s all in the box at the end of article. Meanwhile here are cows on the French-Spanish border, the street In Melles where we stayed fortified by @firepotfood and the window of the refuge where SOE agent Anne-Marie Walters stayed.
Happy to see this account of my trek over the Pyre Happy to see this account of my trek over the Pyrenees in today’s FT travel. It was certainly a challenge but thrilled to have done it and to remember all those brave heroines of SOE - often Parisiennes - who did it regularly with less food, inadequate clothing and constant danger, as well as many ordinary French men and women, passeurs, and resisters some of whom lost their lives on the route. Thanks to Anne-Marie Walters for inspiration and showing me the way and @_adams__family @noranid @imosebba @tomjfl 

#inthefootsteps #soe #pyrenees #womenandwar #womeninhistory #worldwar2 #womeninspiringwomen #escape #mountainescape #LesParisiennes
So many stories I could post after today but they So many stories I could post after today but they will have to wait until I’ve ordered my turbulent thoughts better. For now this little synagogue will have to do. Pre war Oswiecim - renamed for posterity Auschwitz - had seven synagogues and was a flourishing Jewish town in Poland. None of the seven survived but this building, used first as a Nazi munitions depot then a general warehouse. It was returned to the Jewish community in 1998 and is now a house of worship and reflection with museum attached. No Jews remain but plenty of tourists visit with plenty to reflect on.

#research
Stunning day among the antiquities of Delphi, the Stunning day among the antiquities of Delphi, the shrine, the sacred Oracle, the sanctuary of Apollo and the massive theatre dating from 4th century BC . Byron visited in 1809, an unknown young man who sighed over the long deserted shrine where ‘all was still.’
 

#footstepsofByron #cruiselectures #writinglife #GreeceandAlbania #followingthepoet #ancientdelphi
Byron almost deified here in Messolonghi, where he Byron almost deified here in Messolonghi, where he died of a fever nearly 200 years ago in April 1824 fighting for Greek independence. He was 36.
 

#cruiseshiplectures #footstepsofByron #greeceandAlbania #messalonghi #awriterslife #poetry
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