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  • Published: 17 May 2018
  • ISBN: 9780241982877
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $24.99
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Paris After the Liberation

1944 - 1949




A remarkable historical account of the chaos and uncertainty 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: 17 May 2018
  • ISBN: 9780241982877
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $24.99
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

To understand France today you should read this book about France yesterday . . . a wonderfully enjoyable picture. It is compulsive reading

Mark Bonham-Carter, Evening Standard

There is hardly any aspect of French life during that period which the authors do not explore, always with compelling liveliness and omniverous zeal. . . I shall return gratefully to it again and again

Alistair Horne, The European

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

Piers Paul Read, Sunday Telegraph

A perceptive portrait of Paris in its heyday

J. G. Ballard, The Times

A beautifully written book about a vast tapestry of military, political and social upheaval. Remarkably well-researched, wise, balanced, very funny at times . . . I was a witness to events in Paris in the first desperate, glorious, mad weeks, and this is just how it was

Dirk Bogarde

A dashing, multi-dimensional story. This book covers all aspects of life - diplomacy, strategy, rationing, politics and politicking (from Churchill, Pétain's and de Gaulle's point of view), the international theatricals and the tourist invasion, blitzkrieg and Ritzkrieg - to create a lovely tapestry, threaded with facts and figures

Olivier Todd, Sunday Times

Absorbing . . . a rich, many-layered account, selecting from official documents, private archives, memoirs and histories with a wonderful lightness of touch, so that the most complex events become clear

Jenny Uglow, Independent on Sunday