Author: Lochery, Neill,
Title: Lisbon: war in the shadows of the City of Light, 1939-1945.
Description: NY, PublicAffairs, (2011). 2nd ptg. VG PB. Lisbon was a pivotal role in the history of World War II though not a gun was fired there. Both the Allies and the Axis powers. did business and watched each other obsessively. As well as being temporary home to much of Europe's exiled royalty, thousands of refugees passed through Lisbon en route to the U.S., a host of spies were located there, and the city ended the war in possession of hundreds of tons of looted Nazi gold. A revelatory portrait of the subterfuge capital of WWII.

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