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Paris After the Liberation: 1944 - 1949
Antony Beevor
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Description for Paris After the Liberation: 1944 - 1949
Paperback. An historical account of the chaos and uncertainty that followed the liberation of Paris in August, 1944. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; HBJD; HBLW3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 30. Weight in Grams: 338.
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 '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 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 thrilling, unsurpassed account of the drama and upheaval of one of history's most fascinating eras. 'A dashing, multi-dimensional story. This book covers all aspects of life - diplomacy, strategy, rationing, politics and politicking (from Churchill, Petain'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 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.
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141032412
SKU
V9780141032412
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About Antony Beevor
Antony Beevor is the author of Crete: The Battle and the Resistance (Runciman Prize), Stalingrad (Samuel Johnson Prize, Wolfson Prize for History and Hawthornden Prize), Berlin: The Downfall, The Battle for Spain (Premio La Vanguardia), D-Day: The Battle for Normandy (Prix Henry Malherbe and the RUSI Westminster Medal), The Second World War, Ardennes 1944 (Prix Medicis shortlist) and Arnhem. The number one bestselling historian in Britain, Beevor's books have appeared in thirty-three languages and have sold over eight million copies. A former chairman of the Society of Authors, he has received a number of honorary doctorates. He is also a visiting professor at the University of Kent and an Honorary Fellow of King's College, London. He was knighted in 2017.
Reviews for Paris After the Liberation: 1944 - 1949
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
A dashing, multi-dimensional story. This book covers all aspects of life - diplomacy, strategy, rationing, politics and politicking (from Churchill, Petain'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
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 perceptive portrait of Paris in its heyday
J. G. Ballard
The Times
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
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
This book, like the city it discusses, oscillates satisfyingly between blunt history and roistering gossip
Frank Delaney
Sunday Express
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
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
Skilfully balances historical narrative with social analysis, and tempering the appalling with the absurd
Jan Morris
Independent
A rich and intriguing story which the authors disentangle with great skill
Piers Paul Read
Sunday Telegraph
Jenny Uglow
Independent on Sunday
A dashing, multi-dimensional story. This book covers all aspects of life - diplomacy, strategy, rationing, politics and politicking (from Churchill, Petain'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
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 perceptive portrait of Paris in its heyday
J. G. Ballard
The Times
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
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
This book, like the city it discusses, oscillates satisfyingly between blunt history and roistering gossip
Frank Delaney
Sunday Express
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
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
Skilfully balances historical narrative with social analysis, and tempering the appalling with the absurd
Jan Morris
Independent
A rich and intriguing story which the authors disentangle with great skill
Piers Paul Read
Sunday Telegraph