In her powerful new book, Hotel Exile: Paris in the Shadow of War, Jane tells the extraordinary true story of one iconic Parisian hotel — the Hôtel Lutetia — and uses it as a haunting window into the human drama of World War II.
Jane Rogoyska shines a light on the story of how one Parisian hotel was home to anti-Nazi radicals before the Second World War, German military intelligence officers during the war, and returning deportees after the conflict.
My guest on this week’s Book Club podcast is the historian Jane Rogoyska, whose new book Hotel Exile: Paris in the Shadow of War tells the bloody story of the Second World War through the lens of Paris’s Hotel Lutetia.
Our first podcast for 2026 is with Jane Rogoyska, the author of Hotel Exile: Paris in the Shadow of War. Divided into three parts, it tells the story of the influx of mostly German refugees into Paris following the rise of the Nazis, and how the Hotel Lutetia …
In this conversation, Jane Rogoyska describes the extraordinary and unsettling history behind the Hotel Lutetia – a Parisian hotel that became a crossroads of exile, espionage, and survival during and after World War II.
In Hotel Exile, Jane Rogoyska evokes in novelistic prose the emotions, dilemmas, and fates of the hotel’s patrons. When war came, Paris was occupied, and the hotel became the headquarters of the German military intelligence service―and the centre of their operation to root out enemies of the Reich.
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Starting off as a novice photographer with strong political motivations, Gerda Taro became well known during the Spanish Civil War, only to sadly become the first woman photojournalist to have died covering the frontline of a war, aged 26.
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Jane Rogoyska meets Polish people who were exiled to Siberia by Stalin in 1940, before making an epic odyssey to Britain where they and their descendants remain.