Anthony&Artemis Cooper Beevor: Paris After the Liberation: ..., Auckland in Auckland, Auckland for sale

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pp 531 includes idex.'Here, behind colourful and poignant anecdotes, national myths are punctured without being swapped for jingoistic book racily covers all aspects of life - diplomacy, strategy, rationing, politics and politicking, the international theatricals and the tourist invasion, blitzkrieg and Ritzkrieg - to create a lovely tapestry, threaded with facts and figures, not merely patchwork. I grew up in Paris in those years: this was the way it was'. (Oliver Todd- Sunday Times). This absorbing ores all worlds, from tenements, brothels and factories, jazz cellars and studios, to salons, law-courts and the fossilised chateaux oof vielle or and Cooper give a rich, many-layered account, selecting from official documents, private archives, memoirs and histories with a wonderful lightness of touvh, so that the most complex events become clear.'.
Anthony&Artemis Cooper Beevor: Paris After the Liberation: 1944 - 1949
Author
Anthony&Artemis Cooper Beevor
Title
Paris After the Liberation: 1944 - 1949
Publisher name
Penguin Books, London Etc
Shipping time
3 - 7 days
Publication year
1995
Edition
First edition
Binding type
Soft cover
Listing condition
Used
Item condition
Very good
Vendor name
Booked
Vendor rating
Key words
Nonfiction, History, Second World War, Post Liberation, 1944 - 1949, After War France
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