Paris After the Liberation 1944-1949

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

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  Hardcover
  1994

  $5.91

  Published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Paris from the Nazis, this is a social and cultural history of post-war Paris. Against an atmosphere charged with powerful emotional and intellectual changes, every aspect of Parisian life is portrayed - from the streets and the cafes to fashion houses and painters' salons. The authors interviewed many key witnesses from the period and had access to archival material from Washington, Moscow, London and Paris itself. Hemingway, Sartre, de Beauvoir, Dior, Picasso and de Gaulle are among the many characters which the authors attempt to bring to life.

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  Paperback
  2007

  $3.33

  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.

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  Paperback
  2007

  $14.41

  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.