Paris: After the Liberation 1944-1949, (Paperback)

from MiaCulpa

This starts very well, and it is clear the authors have researched exhaustively, but after a while you do start to wish they would stop talking about Duff Cooper. I enjoyed Antony Beevor's book on the Spanish Civil War so was eager to see what he made of post-Liberation Paris. Well-written and in...

from Bookoholic73

In a way this is two books in one, mirroring the diversity of its authors. I was wondering how Antony Beevor, obviously a respected war historian and author, came to write a book with Artemis Cooper, who clearly has written several books based on the access to her grand parents (Duff and Diana Co...

from jakadk

The book in itself is absolutely enthralling. I've been a fan of Beevor's nonfiction prose since I came across a paperback copy of his Berlin - a signed copy, no less! (Sadly a bit worn) - at my now-defunct Dutch auction haunt some years ago. So this one has been on my internal "must-read"-list f...

from john257hopper

A marvellously absorbing history of Paris in the final year of the war after Liberation and the immediate post-war years, covering the whole range of issues - the desperate economic situation, political chaos, military tensions within the wartime alliance and the start of the Cold War, but also t...

from furriebarry

Somebody took an entertaining and informative history book and crossbred it with Hello magazine. More information and less gossip and this book would have rated higher.