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Show Notes
Sam Leith's guest on this week's <em>Book Club</em> podcast is the historian Jane Rogoyska, whose new book <em>Hotel Exile: Paris in the Shadow of War </em>tells the bloody story of the Second World War through the lens of Paris's Hotel Lutetia – following a cast of exiled intellectuals through the febrile 1930s, the increasing horrors of the war and occupation, through to the devastating aftermath as waves of prisoners returned from the camps. She tells Sam how she came to this unusual approach, how the connections between her cast of characters proliferated, how close Samuel Beckett came to a concentration camp – and about falling a little bit in love with Walter Benjamin.
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