Grand Central Publishing · New release
The Typewriter and the Guillotine
An American Journalist, a German Serial Killer, and Paris on the Eve of WWII
Grand Central Publishing · Military History
Released January 20, 2026 · ISBN 9781538767115
About the book
Janet Flanner filing from Paris as fascism gathers — a New Yorker correspondent who found her real subject just in time.
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