- Published: 17 September 2018
- ISBN: 9780241351314
- Imprint: Peng. Mod. Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 272
- RRP: $22.99
French and Germans, Germans and French
A Personal Interpretation of France under Two Occupations, 1914–1918/1940–1944
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- Published: 17 September 2018
- ISBN: 9780241351314
- Imprint: Peng. Mod. Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 272
- RRP: $22.99
A splendid book for comprehending human kind ... Cobb has a strong sense of how ordinary life has to go on, even through disasters, and a sensitivity for what it was like at the time, matched by a gift for the telling phrase
Economist
Prophet of the past, Richard Cobb is a visionary
New York Review of Books
His France - urban, northern, provincial, pedestrian, noisy, unpuritanical, festive - was in contrast to, and predicated upon, another France: bureaucratic, official, suburban, safe
Julian Barnes