Book description
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.
Antony Beevor began his career as a professional officer in the 11th
Hussars. He is the author of several books, including The Spanish
Civil War, Crete and The Mystery of Olga Chekhova. With
his wife, Artemis Cooper, he wrote Paris After the Liberation,
but he is best known for his books Berlin and
Stalingrad, the international No 1 bestseller, and winner of
the Samuel Johnson Prize, Wolfson Price and Hawthornden Prize. He
lives in London and Kent.
Artemis Cooper is the author of several books, including Cairo in
the War 1939-1945 and Writing at the Kitchen Table. Her
grandfather, Duff Cooper, was the first post-war British ambassador to
Paris, and his private diaries and papers provide one of the
unpublished sources for this book.
