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  • Published: 26 November 2007
  • ISBN: 9780141032412
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 464
  • RRP: $30.00
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Paris After the Liberation

1944 - 1949




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 twentieth century French history.

  • Published: 26 November 2007
  • ISBN: 9780141032412
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 464
  • RRP: $30.00
Categories:

About the authors

Antony Beevor

Antony Beevor's books include Crete - The Battle and the Resistance, which won a Runciman Prize; Paris After the Liberation, 1944-1949 (written with his wife, Artemis Cooper); Stalingrad, which won the Samuel Johnson Prize, the Wolfson Prize for History and the Hawthornden Prize for Literature; Berlin - The Downfall, which received the first Longman ­History Today Trustees' Award; and, most recently, The Battle for Spain. His books have appeared in thirty foreign editions and sold nearly four million copies.

Praise for Paris After the Liberation

Outstanding. Enormously enjoyable to read - exciting, lively, funny, and admirably tolerant and objective in its opinions. It is hard to see how it could have been better done

Philip Ziegler, Daily Telegraph

Held me gripped by every page and I was impatient at any interruption. The details of this book are spellbinding, often frightening and sometimes funny

Alec Guinness, Daily Mail

Skilfully balances historical narrative with social analysis, and tempering the appalling with the absurd

Jan Morris, Independent

This book, like the city it discusses, oscillates satisfyingly between blunt history and roistering gossip

Frank Delaney, Sunday Express

A rich and intriguing story which the authors disentangle with great skill

Piers Paul Read, Sunday Telegraph