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Eleven Days in August - The Liberation of Paris in 1944 (Hardcover, New)
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Eleven Days in August - The Liberation of Paris in 1944 (Hardcover, New)
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Price R580
Discovery Miles 5 800
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'I had thought that for me there could never again be any elation
in war. But I had reckoned without the liberation of Paris - I had
reckoned without remembering that I might be a part of that richly
historic day. We were in Paris on the first day - one of the great
days of all time.' (Ernie Pyle, US war correspondent) The
liberation of Paris was a momentous point in twentieth-century
history, yet it is now largely forgotten outside France. Eleven
Days in Augustis a pulsating hour-by-hour reconstruction of these
tumultuous events that shaped the final phase of the war and the
future of France, told with the pace of a thriller. While examining
the conflicting national and international interests that played
out in the bloody street fighting, it tells of how, in eleven
dramatic days, people lived, fought and died in the most beautiful
city in the world. Based largely on unpublished archive material,
including secret conversations, coded messages, diaries and
eyewitness accounts, Eleven Days in Augustshows how these August
days were experienced in very different ways by ordinary Parisians,
Resistance fighters, French collaborators, rank-and-file German
soldiers, Allied and French spies, the Allied and German High
Commands. Above all, it shows that while the liberation of Paris
may be attributed to the audacity of the Resistance, the weakness
of the Germans and the strength of the Allies, the key to it all
was the Parisians who by turn built street barricades and sunbathed
on the banks of the Seine, who fought the Germans and simply tried
to survive until the Germans finally surrendered, in a billiard
room at the Prefecture of Police. One of the most iconic moments in
the history of the twentieth century had come to a close, and the
face of Paris would never be the same again.
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