Dimensions
163 x 197 x 23mm
Wine and war combine in this remarkable untold story of France's courageous, clever vintners, who protected and rescued the country's most treasured commodity from German plunder during the Second World War.
In 1940 France fell to the Nazis, and the German army almost immediately began a campaign of pillaging one of the assets the French hold most dear: their wine. 'Wine & War' tells the alternately thrilling and harrowing story of the French wine producers who undertook ingenious and often daring measures to save their finest and most precious crops and bottles as the Germans closed in on them.
Five prominent wine-making families from France's key wine-producing families of Burgundy, Alsace, the Loire Valley, Bordeaux, and Champagne, allowed Don and Petie Kladstrup to tell their stories in a way that vividly illustrates how men and women risked their lives for a cause that meant saving the heart and soul of France as much as protecting an economy.
