Revised Edition: Paris After the Liberation 1944-1949

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“A rich and intriguing story whcih the authors disentangle with great skill.”–Sunday TelegraphFrom Antony Beevor, the internationally bestselling author of D-Day and The Battle of ArnhemIn 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.

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Weight 0.425625 kg
Dimensions 2.4384 × 13.9192 × 21.209 cm
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Format

Paperback

Language

Pages

464

Publisher

Year Published

2004-8-31

Imprint

Publication City/Country

USA

ISBN 10

0142437921

About The Author

Antony Beevor was educated at Winchester and Sandhurst. A regular officer in the 11th Hussars, he served in Germany and England. He has published several novels, and his works of nonfiction include The Spanish Civil War; Crete: The Battle and the Resistance, which won the 1993 Runciman Award; Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege: 1942—1943; and Berlin: The Downfall, 1945. With his wife, Artemis Cooper, he wrote Paris: After the Liberation: 1944—1949. His book Stalingrad was awarded the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, the Wolfson History Prize, and the Hawthornden Prize in 1999.Artemis Cooper’s work includes Cairo in the War 1939–1945 and Writing at the Kitchen Table, the authorized biography of Elizabeth David, both of which are published by Penguin. She has also edited two collections of letters: A Durable Fire: The Letters of Duff and Diana Cooper and Mr. Wu and Mrs. Stitch: The Letters of Evelyn Waugh and Diana Cooper. Her grandfather, Duff Cooper, was the first postwar British ambassador to Paris, and his private diaries and papers provide one of the previously unpublished sources for this book. Artemis Cooper and Anthony Beevor were both appointed Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government. They are married and have two children.

Table Of Content

Paris: After the Liberation 1944-1949PrefacePart One: The Tale of Two Countries1. The Marshal and the General2. The Paths of Collaboration and Resistance3. The Resistance of the Interior and the Men of London4. The Race for Paris5. Liberated Paris6. The Passage of Exiles7. War Tourists and Ritzkrieg8. The Epuration SauvagePart Two: L'etat, C'est De Gualle9. Provisional Government10. Corps Diplomatique11. Liberators and Liberated12. Writers and Artists in the Line of Fire13. The Return of Exiles14. The Great Trials15. Hunger for the New16. After the Deluge17. Communists in Government18. The Abduction of Charles XIPart Three: Into the Cold War19. The Shadow-Theatre: Plots and Counter-Plots20. Politics and Letters21. The Diplomatic Battleground22, The Fashionable World23. A Tale of Two Cities24. Fighting Back against the Communists25. The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy26. The Republic at Bay27. The Great Boom of Saint-Germain-des-Pres28. The Curious Triangle29. The Treason of the IntellectualsPart Four: The New Normality30. Americans in Paris31. The Tourist Invasion32. Paris sera toujours Paris33. Recurring FeversReferencesBibliographyPhotographic AcknowledgmentsIndex

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