Antony Beevor's Paris After Liberation: 1944-1949 is a remarkable historical account of the chaos and uncertainty that followed the liberation of Paris in August, 1944
.Post liberation Paris - an epoch charged with political and conflicting emotions. Liberation was greeted with joy but marked by recriminations and the trauma of purges. The feverish intellectual arguments of the young took place amidst the mundane reality of hunger and fuel shortages. This is a stunning historical account of one of the most stimulating periods in twentieth century French history.
'Outstanding, enormously enjoyable, exciting' Philip Ziegler, Daily Telegraph
'Held me gripped by every page and I was impatient at any interruption. Spellbinding, often frightening and sometimes funny' Alec Guinness, Daily Mail
Antony Beevor is the renowned author of Stalingrad, which won the Samuel Johnson Prize, the Wolfson Prize for History and the Hawthornden Prize for Literature, and Berlin, which received the first Longman-History Today Trustees' Award. His books have sold nearly four million copies.
Chapter 1: The Marshal and the General
Chapter 2: The Paths of Collaboration and Resistance
Chapter 3: The Resistance of the Interior and the Men of London
Chapter 6: The Passage of Exiles
Chapter 7: War Tourists and Ritzkrieg
Chapter 8: The Épuration Sauvage
Chapter 9: Provisional Government
Chapter 10: Corps Diplomatique
Chapter 11: Liberators and Liberated
Chapter 12: Writers and Artists in the Line of Fire
Chapter 13: The Return of Exiles
Chapter 15: Hunger for the New
Chapter 17: Communists in Government
Chapter 18: The Abdication of Charles XI
Chapter 19: The Shadow-Theatre: Plots and Counter-Plots
Chapter 20: Politics and Letters
Chapter 21: The Diplomatic Battleground
Chapter 22: The Fashionable World
Chapter 23: A Tale of Two Cities
Chapter 24: Fighting Back against the Communists
Chapter 25: The Self-FulfillingProphecy
Chapter 26: The Republic at Bay
Chapter 27: The Great Boom of Saint-Germain-des-Prés
Chapter 28: The Curious Triangle
Chapter 29: The Treason of the Intellectuals
Chapter 30: Americans in Paris
Chapter 31: The Tourist Invasion
Chapter 32: Paris sera toujours Paris
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