Paris After the Liberation

by Antony Beevor (Author), Artemis Cooper (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2004

  $13.07

  A revised edition of the book to give it the same format and cover look as Antony Beevor's STALINGRAD and BERLIN. Publication in May 2004 will coincide with the 60 th anniversary of the liberation of Paris during the war.

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  Paperback
  2007

  $3.52

  Antony Beevor's Paris After Liberation: 1944-1949 is 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. 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 ). Antony Beevor is the renowned author of Stalingrad , which won the Samuel Johnson Prize, the Wolfson Prize for History and the Hawthornden Prize for Literature, and Berlin, which received the first Longman-History Today Trustees' Award. His books have sold nearly four million copies.

• New

  Paperback
  2007

  $15.28

  Antony Beevor's Paris After Liberation: 1944-1949 is 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. 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 ). Antony Beevor is the renowned author of Stalingrad , which won the Samuel Johnson Prize, the Wolfson Prize for History and the Hawthornden Prize for Literature, and Berlin, which received the first Longman-History Today Trustees' Award. His books have sold nearly four million copies.