Paris After the Liberation (Antony Beevor) ; Gardners Books

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Paris After the Liberation by Antony Beevor, read by Sean Barrett.   Antony Beevors 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 thrilling, unsurpassed account of the drama and upheaval of one of historys most fascinating eras.  A dashing, multi-dimensional story. This book covers all aspects of life - diplomacy, strategy, rationing, politics and politicking (from Churchill, Ptains and de Gaulles point of view), the international theatricals and the tourist invasion, blitzkrieg and Ritzkrieg - to create a lovely tapestry, threaded with facts and figures  Olivier Todd, Sunday Times  Absorbing . . . a rich, many-layered account, selecting from official documents, private archives, memoirs and histories with a wonderful lightness of touch, so that the most complex events become clear Jenny Uglow, Independent on Sunday  A beautifully written book about a vast tapestry of military, political and social upheaval. Remarkably well-researched, wise, balanced, very funny at times . . . I was a witness to events in Paris in the first desperate, glorious, mad weeks, and this is just how it was  Dirk Bogarde

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