When France fell to Hitler, the Reich sent German wine merchants (whom the French referred to as weinführers) to buy as much good French wine as possible and resell it at a large profit. Basing their account on interviews with survivors and other research, the authors focus on the activities of five winemaking families in Burgundy, Alsace, Champagne, Bordeaux and the Loire Valley. The Kladstrups-Don, a distinguished journalist and former TV news correspondent, and his wife, Petie, a freelance writer-have unearthed and compiled an array of facts and anecdotes about the significance of French wine-to the French and to their enemies-and the role of French winemakers during WWII.
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