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Paris after the Liberation

Paris ‘“ After the Liberation explores the world of post-liberation Paris, an epoch charged with political and conflicting emotions for Parisians. Liberation was greeted with joy but marked by recriminations and the trauma of purges. Antony Beevor and Artemis Cooper cover all aspects of life in Paris including diplomacy, strategy, rationing, politics and politicking, the international theatricals and the tourist invasion, blitzkrieg and Ritzkrieg. In discussing the whole panorama of Parisian life after the war, the authors explore the feverish intellectual arguments of the young, which took place amidst the mundane reality of hunger and fuel shortages. This is a important historical account of one of the most stimulating periods in twentieth century French history.