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Paris

After the Liberation 1944-1949
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From two renowned British historians comes a vivid and anecdotal history of the dazzling social, cultural, and political renaissance that occurred in the City of Lights after World War II. A fitting celebration for the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Paris.
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ISBN/GTIN978-0-14-243792-6
Product TypePaperback
BindingPaperback
FormatTrade paperback (US)
Publishing date31/08/2004
EditionRevised edition
LanguageEnglish
SizeWidth 139 mm, Height 214 mm, Thickness 26 mm
Weight431 g
Article no.27542172
CatalogsLibri
Data source no.A3433282
Product groupBU949
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Antony Beevor was educated at Winchester and Sandhurst. A regular officer in the 11th Hussars, he served in Germany and England. He has published several novels, and his works of nonfiction include The Spanish Civil War; Crete: The Battle and the Resistance, which won the 1993 Runciman Award; Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege: 1942--1943; and Berlin: The Downfall, 1945. With his wife, Artemis Cooper, he wrote Paris: After the Liberation: 1944--1949. His book Stalingrad was awarded the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, the Wolfson History Prize, and the Hawthornden Prize in 1999.
Artemis Cooper's work includes Cairo in the War 1939-1945 and Writing at the Kitchen Table, the authorized biography of Elizabeth David, both of which are published by Penguin. She has also edited two collections of letters: A Durable Fire: The Letters of Duff and Diana Cooper and Mr. Wu and Mrs. Stitch: The Letters of Evelyn Waugh and Diana Cooper. Her grandfather, Duff Cooper, was the first postwar British ambassador to Paris, and his private diaries and papers provide one of the previously unpublished sources for this book. Artemis Cooper and Anthony Beevor were both appointed Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government. They are married and have two children.

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