Paris After the Liberation 1944-1949 - Couverture rigide

Beevor, Antony; Cooper, Artemis

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0385471955 ISBN 13 : 9780385471954

Editeur : Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, 1994

Synopsis

Book by Beevor Antony

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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.

Présentation de l'éditeur :

"A rich and intriguing story whcih the authors disentangle with great skill."--Sunday Telegraph

Beevor's Ardennes 1944: The Battle of the Bulge is now available from Viking Books 

In this brilliant synthesis of social, political, and cultural history, Antony Beevor and Artemis Cooper present a vivid and compelling portrayal of the City of Lights after its liberation. Paris became the diplomatic battleground in the opening stages of the Cold War. Against this volatile political backdrop, every aspect of life is portrayed: scores were settled in a rough and uneven justice, black marketers grew rich on the misery of the population, and a growing number of intellectual luminaries and artists including Hemingway, Beckett, Camus, Sartre, de Beauvoir, Cocteau, and Picassocontributed new ideas and a renewed vitality to this extraordinary moment in time.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
• Date d'édition: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0385471955
• ISBN 13: 9780385471954
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 479