The Flight Portfolio
A novel
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4.2 • 131 Ratings
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
From the bestselling, award-winning author of The Invisible Bridge comes a gripping tale of forbidden love, high-stakes adventure, and unimaginable courage filled with "suspense and tragedy, unexpected twists and deliverance” (The Seattle Times). • THE INSPIRATION FOR THE NETFLIX SERIES TRANSATLANTIC
MARSEILLE, 1940. Varian Fry, a Harvard-educated journalist and editor, arrives in France. Recognizing the darkness descending over Europe, he and a group of like-minded New Yorkers formed the Emergency Rescue Committee, helping artists and writers escape from the Nazis and immigrate to the United States.
Amid the chaos of World War II, and in defiance of restrictive U.S. immigration policies, Fry must procure false passports, secure visas, seek out escape routes through the Pyrenees and by sea, and make impossible decisions about who should be saved, all while under profound pressure—and in a state of irrevocable personal change.
In this dazzling work of historical fiction—one that illuminates previously unexplored elements of Fry’s story, and has, since its publication, brought us new insight into his life.
Customer Reviews
An extraordinary man and accomplishments
A tale, based on truth interspersed with some fictional characters, of a man’s heroic task of saving Europe’s elite artists and intellectuals during the earlier days of WWII. The writing is complex and required very careful reading to adequately capture the sacrifices, the times, the place as well as the personal attachments that must have developed during this harrowing period in Vichy, France.
Excellent!
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Such a mix of sadness, joy, agony and love.tippypoodle