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Paris '44 - The Shame and the Glory (Paperback)
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Paris '44 - The Shame and the Glory (Paperback)
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List price R319
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From the Sunday Times-bestselling Patrick Bishop comes a heart-stopping
countdown narrative recreating the liberation of Paris in 1944, one of
the great and most dramatic hinge moments of WW2.
When the Germans marched in and the lamps went out in the City of Light
the millions who loved Paris mourned. Liberation, four years later,
triggered an explosion of joy and relief. It was the party of the
century and everybody who was anybody was there. General Charles de
Gaulle seized the moment to create an instant legend that would take
its place alongside the great moments in French history. After years of
oppression and humiliation Parisians had risen to reclaim their city
and drive out the forces of darkness – or so the story went.
This fresh new account of the liberation, packed with revelation, tells
the story of those heady days of suspense, danger, exhilaration – and
vengeance – through the eyes of a range of participants, reflecting all
sides of the conflict: Americans, French and Germans; resisters and
collaborators. Among them are famous names like Ernest Hemingway, J.D.
Salinger and Pablo Picasso, but also some fascinating unknowns
including a medic turned Resistance gunwoman, an androgynous Hungarian
sculptor and a French bluestocking who quietly set about saving the
nation’s art treasures from the Nazi looters.
Paris ’44 looks behind the mythology to tell the real story of the
liberation and expose the conflicts and contradictions of France under
the occupation – the shame as well as the glory. This gripping war-time
narrative will enthral anyone who has a place for Paris in their hearts.
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