"Vin et guerre"

Wine and war come together in this remarkable untold story of France's brave and resourceful winemakers, who protected and rescued the country's most cherished commodity from German looting during the Second World War. In 1940, France succumbed to the Nazis, and the German army quickly launched a campaign to plunder one of the assets most valued by the French: their wine. Like other members of the French Resistance, winemakers rallied to resist their occupiers. "Wine and War" recounts the alternatively thrilling and harrowing tale of the French wine producers who employed ingenious and often daring tactics to safeguard their finest crops and bottles as the Germans closed in on them. Publisher: CORONET - 13 x 19.5 cm - 328 pages - paperback