Allan Mitchell (1933-2016) received his PhD from Harvard in 1961, then taught at Smith College (1961-1972) and the University of California, San Diego (1972-1992). His most recent books were The Great Train Race: Railways and the Franco-German Rivalry 1815-1914 (Berghahn Books, 2000); Rêves Parisiens: L'échec de projets de transport public en France au XIXème siècle (Ponts-et-Chaussées, Paris, 2005); A Stranger in Paris: Germany's Role in Republican France, 1870-1940 (Berghahn Books, 2006); and Nazi Paris: The History of an Occupation, 1940-1944 (Berghahn Books, 2008).

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1. The Loner
Chapter 2. The Road to Paris

Photograph Section I

Chapter 3. Man About Town
Chapter 4. Dreaming and Musing
Chapter 5. Strange Interlude
Chapter 6. Kniébolo and the Nazis

Photograph Section II

Chapter 7. The Plot Against Hitler
Chapter 8. Telling Omissions
Chapter 9. Immediate Afterthoughts
Chapter 10. The Correspondent

Photograph Section III

Postscript: Liebe Sophie

Conclusion

List of Abbreviations

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Name Index

Subject Index