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Avenue of Spies is Alex Kershaw's narrative history of Sumner Jackson, an American doctor in occupied Paris who ran a resistance escape line from his home on Avenue Foch while Gestapo headquarters sat down the street. Kershaw, author of The Liberator, tells it as a fast, scene-driven story built from family papers and survivor accounts. It suits readers of narrative World War II history more than academic or military-strategy readers. Compared with broader occupation histories, it is narrow and personal, trading analysis for the tension of one family under surveillance.
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Readers of Kershaw's other books tend to call this a gripping, well-researched account of a little-known American resistance figure. Some find it thinner on context than his unit histories and say the supporting cast is sketched rather than developed.
Avenue of Spies is a true story of World War II by Alex Kershaw, the author of The Liberator. It follows Sumner Jackson, an American doctor living in Nazi-occupied Paris with his wife and young son Phillip at Number 11, Avenue Foch.
Avenue Foch was one of the city's most exclusive residential streets and a center of spies, secret police, informers, and Vichy collaborators. Number 31 was home to Theodor Dannecker, who was charged with deporting French Jews to concentration camps. Number 84 housed the Gestapo's Paris headquarters.
From his office at the American Hospital, Jackson smuggled fallen Allied fighter pilots out of France. He joined the Liberation network of the French resistance and invited it to operate from his home. When his Nazi neighbors discovered his secret life, he and his family were forced onto a dangerous journey into war-torn Europe.
