Paris After the Liberation
1944 - 1949
$39.80
- Paperback
464 pages
- Release Date
4 October 2007
Summary
A remarkable historical account of the celebration and chaos that followed the liberation of Paris in August, 1944.
Post liberation Paris - an epoch charged with political and conflicting emotions. Liberation was greeted with joy but marked by recriminations and the trauma of purges. The feverish intellectual arguments of the young took place amidst the mundane reality of hunger and fuel shortages. This is a stunning historical account of one of the most stimulating periods in twentie…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141032412 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141032413 |
| Author: | Artemis Cooper, Antony Beevor |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 464 |
| Release Date: | 4 October 2007 |
| Weight: | 322g |
| Dimensions: | 199mm x 130mm x 25mm |
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Outstanding, enormously enjoyable, exciting
Outstanding, enormously enjoyable, exciting – Philip Ziegler Daily Telegraph Held me gripped by every page and I was impatient at any interruption. Spellbinding, often frightening and sometimes funny – Alec Guinness Daily Mail
About The Author
Artemis Cooper
Antony Beevor is the author of Crete- The Battle and the Resistance (Runciman Prize), Stalingrad (Samuel Johnson Prize, Wolfson Prize for History and Hawthornden Prize), Berlin- The Downfall, The Battle for Spain (Premio La Vanguardia), D-Day- The Battle for Normandy (Prix Henry Malherbe and the RUSI Westminster Medal), The Second World War, Ardennes 1944 (Prix Medicis shortlist) and Arnhem. The number one bestselling historian in Britain, Beevor’s books have appeared in thirty-three languages and have sold over eight million copies. A former chairman of the Society of Authors, he has received a number of honorary doctorates. He is also a visiting professor at the University of Kent and an Honorary Fellow of King’s College, London. He was knighted in 2017.
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