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Champagne Charlie

The Frenchman Who Taught Americans to Love Champagne

By: Don Kladstrup,Petie Kladstrup

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Champagne Charlie

The Frenchman Who Taught Americans to Love Champagne

By: Don Kladstrup,Petie Kladstrup

Machine generated contents note: List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- Chapter One: The First Sip -- Chapter Two: Young Charles -- Chapter Three: Discovery of the New World -- Chapter Four: Reading the Stars -- Chapter Five: The Panic -- Chapter Six: The Lion of New York -- Chapter Seven: Southern Comfort -- Chapter Eight: "It's War" -- Chapter Nine: The Beast -- Chapter Ten: Into the Jaws -- Chapter Eleven: "We Are Not in Venice" -- Chapter Twelve: The Homecoming -- Chapter Thirteen: The Man Who Never Forgot -- Chapter Fourteen: "War Seems to Follow Me" -- Chapter Fifteen: The Denver Miracle -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Notes -- Index.

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1640123946

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Champagne Charlie

The Frenchman Who Taught Americans to Love Champagne

By: Don Kladstrup,Petie Kladstrup

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Champagne Charlie

The Frenchman Who Taught Americans to Love Champagne

By: Don Kladstrup,Petie Kladstrup

Champagne Charlie tells the story of a dashing young Frenchman, Charles Heidsieck, who introduced hard-drinking Americans to champagne in the mid-nineteenth century and became famously known as Champagne Charlie. Ignoring critics who warned that America was a dangerous place to do business, Heidsieck plunged right in, considering it “the land of opportunity” and succeeding there beyond his wildest dreams. Those dreams, however, became a nightmare when the Civil War erupted and he was imprisoned and nearly executed after being charged with spying for the Confederacy. Only after the Lincoln administration intervened was Heidsieck’s life saved, but his champagne business had gone bankrupt and was virtually dead. Then, miraculously, Heidsieck became owner of nearly half the city of Denver, the fastest-growing city in the West. By selling the land, Heidsieck was eventually able to resurrect his business to its former glory. For all its current-day glamour, effervescence, and association with the high life, champagne had a lackluster start. It was pale red in color, insipid in taste, and completely flat. In fact, champagne-makers, including the legendary Dom Pérignon, fought strenuously to eliminate bubbles. Champagne’s success can be traced back to King Louis XV and his mistress Madame de Pompadour, Napoleon Bonaparte, countless wars and prohibitions, and, most important to the United States, Charles Heidsieck. Champagne Charlie tells the history of champagne and the thrilling tale of how the go-to celebratory drink of our time made its way to the United States, thanks to the controversial figure of Heidsieck.

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1640125035

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9781640125032

Wine and War

By: Don Kladstrup,Petie Kladstrup

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Wine and War

By: Don Kladstrup,Petie Kladstrup

Wine & War tells the little-known story of the French wine producers who undertook ingenious and often daring measures to save their finest and most precious wines as the Nazis closed in on them.

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0750518944

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9780750518949

Champagne

How the World's Most Glamorous Wine Triumphed Over War and Hard Times

By: Don Kladstrup,Petie Kladstrup

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Champagne

How the World's Most Glamorous Wine Triumphed Over War and Hard Times

By: Don Kladstrup,Petie Kladstrup

The sparkling wine’s untold dramatic history, from the thirteenth century to two world wars and the twenty-first century, by the bestselling authors of Wine and War. “The blood history of Champagne has been told before, but not in such a breezy, easygoing volume. Good froth.” —New York Times It’s been said that Champagne in northern France has been the site of more bloody battles, fiery incursions, and large-scale wars than any other place on Earth. From the time of Attila the Hun to the Germans in World War II, countless invaders have tried to conquer this strife-torn land. Yet somehow it managed to become the birthplace of the world’s most beloved wine. In this engrossing and unforgettable history, author Don and Peite Kladstrup show how this sparkling wine, born of bloodshed, became a symbol of glamour, good times, and celebration. It’s a story filled with larger-than-life characters: Dom Pérignon, the father of champagne, who, contrary to popular belief, worked his entire life to keep bubbles out of champagne; the Sun King, Louis XIV, who rarely drank anything else; and Napoleon, who, in trying to conquer the world, introduced it to champagne. Compelling, dramatic, eye-opening, and utterly fascinating, Champagne will forever change how you look at a glass of bubbly. “A lovingly written ode to this incomparable, festive wine.” —Newsday (New York) “[An] outstanding contribution to popular wine history. . . . A delight.” —Wine Enthusiast

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Harper Collins

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006201305X

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9780062013057

The Shelburne Escape Line

SecretRescues of Allied Aviators by the French Underground, the British Royal Navy and London's MI-9

By: Reanne Hemingway-Douglass Hemingway-Douglass,Don Douglass

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The Shelburne Escape Line

SecretRescues of Allied Aviators by the French Underground, the British Royal Navy and London's MI-9

By: Reanne Hemingway-Douglass Hemingway-Douglass,Don Douglass

Six decades after the end of World War II, new stories about the conflict continue to emerge. One of these is the subject of this book. Written by an American, Ranne Hemingway-Douglass, and published in the UK by Pen & Sword, it has all the elements of a classic covert adventure tale. ??As the book explains, the Shelburne was one of the later escape lines that operated within Nazi-occupied Europe. It was established at the end of 1943 by two agents who worked for MI-9, the London-based military intelligence agency responsible for providing assistance to Allied servicemen stranded behind enemy lines. Working with the French Resistance, these agents arranged for groups of Allied airmen to be taken from "safe houses" in Paris to Brittany, where a Royal Navy motor gunboat picked them up from a secluded beach and delivered them back to England. Eight audacious evacuation operations were conducted between January and August, 1944, without the Shelburne Line ever being infiltrated by the Gestapo.??Aspects of the Shelburne story have been told previously in memoirs by several of the participants, including the late MP Airey Neave, who was an MI-9 operative. However, Hemingway-Douglass expands the story to include recollections of some of the local Breton people who were involved with the Line. The second half of the book comprises personal stories of airmen and other individuals who were affiliated with the Shelburne Line or were otherwise caught up in the war in France. ??A lifelong Francophile, Hemingway-Douglass took eight years to research and write the book. She describes it as a Òlabor of love that pays tribute to the heroism and courage of 'ordinary' people, while reinforcing the fact that war touches everybody.Ó

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Pen and Sword

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1473837782

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